Eccetera Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Here's the thing about baseball-it's not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that.
Yeah, the batter is a lone man against the world. He stands in the batter's box like a soldier and it's up to him-and him alone-what happens next.
But here's the thing I didn't understand until I was forced to, until recently: In order to hit a home run ...
Someone else has to pitch the ball. — Barry Lyga

One day I will risk losing you forever. When I'll tell you for the first time that I love you. — Michael Jones

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible. — Deborah Moggach

As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does. — Ira Sachs

I'm Lakota Sioux. — Chaske Spencer

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere. — Sharon Olds

He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love. — Augustine Of Hippo

The creatures I have sent to their God are not men. They abdicated the right to the name by committing acts of inhuman savagery so that they cannot even count themselves among God's beasts. For even the beasts have better reason for what they do- and so have I. If those be men, I rank myself gladly with the animals. There are places in this world where the force of law holds sway; it is a great pity that Larissa is not one of them.
Laertes, Count of Samothrace — Rebecca Ashe

I recently rewatched Stand By Me and was like, "Wow, this is so powerful because these young men are so vulnerable and so emotional, and love each other." That's a rare quality for a film. — Ellen Page

Crazy enough to think you will succeed, but sane enough to make it happen. — Eric Schmidt

End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators. — Ralph Nader