"You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport."

--

Guy Forget

#Sports Quotes #Lonely Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.”

Source : Ernst Bacon, Sara Davis Buechner (2011). “Notes on the Piano”, p.117, Courier Corporation
“I'm so not a financial person.”
“It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.”
“There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.”
“Women of child-bearing age steadily run out of eggs by the continuous process of cell death. While reading a copy of the 'Guardian' carefully from cover to cover, a normal woman will have lost on average two eggs - while, typically, a normal man will have made 70,000 new sperm.”
“One of the many things I love about Daenerys from Game of Thrones is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.40, Vintage
“The ego will always be able to find ways to keep the aspirant busy in self-improvement, thus binding him or her to the fact that the self is still there behind all the improvements. For why should the ego kill itself?”
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”

Source : Barbara Wertheim Tuchman, Center for the Book, Authors' League of America (1980). “The Book: A Lecture Sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, Presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979”, Library of Congress

You may also like:

Amelie Mauresmo
Tennis player
Boris Becker
Tennis player
Gael Monfils
Tennis player
John McEnroe
Tennis player
Richard Krajicek
Tennis player
Stefan Edberg
Tennis player
Thomas Muster
Tennis player
Yannick Noah
Tennis player
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Tennis player