Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.


S. W. Duffield

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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W. P. KINSELLA
I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard ...
W. P. KINSELLA
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If y...
W. P. KINSELLA
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
W. P. KINSELLA
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it...
W. P. KINSELLA
I don't believe in the afterlife.
W. P. KINSELLA
The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like bird...
W. P. KINSELLA
Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by...
W. P. KINSELLA
The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. MARK FELT
I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. MARK FELT
I have to do this my way.
W. MARK FELT
I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
W. MARK FELT
I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. MARK FELT
The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY
All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY
It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES
I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES
Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES
I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES
I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES
However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES
My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES
But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES
How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES
What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES
I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a...
W. H. DAVIES
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. DAVIES
May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, consideri...
W. H. AUDEN
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
W. H. AUDEN
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a ...
W. H. AUDEN
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
W. H. AUDEN