Quotes & Sayings About Center Fielders

It was 10:45. Across the continent Susan would be putting on her makeup now, and spraying some perfume on herself and making sure her hair was perfect. I looked at my reflection in the window. My hair wasn't perfect. Neither was I. — Robert B. Parker

You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality — Judith McNaught

Thus, towards the end of the eighteenth century a change came about which, if I were rewriting history, I should describe more fully and think of greater importance than the Crusades or the Wars of the Roses. The middle-class woman began to write. For if Pride and Prejudice matters, and Middlemarch and Villette and Wuthering Heights matter, then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally, and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her folios and her flatterers, took to writing. — Virginia Woolf

If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face. — Malina Suliman

I harbored in my mind a sort of utopia about 'an age of genius' that supposedly existed in my life once upon a time, not in any calendar year but on a level above chronology, an age when everything blazed with godly colors and one took in the whole sky with a single breath, like a gulp of pure ultramarine. — Bruno Schulz

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers. — W. Daniel Hillis

Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness. — Kristin Cashore

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel De Montaigne

Those things that hurt, instruct. — M. Scott Peck

Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character. — Aaron Sorkin

Peaceful, honest people have the right to be left alone. — Sam Harris

There's a lot of memorization that goes on in school. You memorize vocabulary words and all these sorts of things. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We are a people captivated by the power and romance of metaphor, forever seeking the invisible through the image of the visible. — Lewis H. Lapham