Fieldworks Quotes & Sayings

I played with Annika today. I love being paired with her. She does not make many mental mistakes, and she has the ability to repeat her swing over and over and wears people down. — Natalie Gulbis

Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure. — Laozi

This is my formula for the fall of things:
we come to a river we always knew we'd have to cross.
It ferries the twilight down through fieldworks
of corn and half-blown sunflowers.
The only sounds, one lost cicada calling to itself
and the piping of a bird that will never have a name.
Now tell me there is a pause
where we know there should be an end;
then tell me you too imagined it this way
with our shadows never quite touching the river
and the river never quite reaching the sea. — John Glenday

A book is one kind of an art form and a film is a different art form. I think as a writer you just have to say, well the book is one thing, and the film is a completely different one. — Lisa See

For me Wagner is impossible ... he talks without ever stopping. One can't just talk all the time. — Robert Schumann

The computer environment is radically different today. In the 1980s, it was like the Wild West, with a lot of open territory. Now, the cowboys have moved out and the farmers have moved in. — Mitch Kapor

The best evidence of our having the truth is our walking in the truth. — Matthew Henry

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. — John Darnielle

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans. — John Henrik Clarke

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory. — Genevieve Gerard

Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ's love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him? — Charles Spurgeon

The legacy we leave behind should be better than the legacy we inherited". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them. — Ang Lee

According to her, I didn't have an ounce of tact. That simply wasn't true. It wasn't my fault that they were all incompetent asshats. "Are — Adele Abbott

When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard? — Marcus Aurelius