John Cheever Falconer Quotes & Sayings

Meaning that if you live in the moment, so to speak, we play today, and tonight we're done. — Alex Van Halen

Retire? Me? I'll go when they get tired of me at Old Trafford or when I can no longer do the job. — Matt Busby

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I hate to lose more than I love to win. — Jimmy Connors

During the first months in Rome, my clandestine Italian diary is the only thing that consoles me, that gives me stability. Often, awake and restless in the middle of the night, I go to the desk to compose some paragraphs in Italian. It's an absolutely secret project. No one suspects, no one knows. I don't recognize the person who is writing in this diary, in this new, approximate language. But I know that it's the most genuine, most vulnerable part of me. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive. — Claude Monet

They wrote to me and said something about it, and I said that if it doesn't involve any work, I'll do it.
(On being named Minnesota's first Poet Laureate) — Robert Bly

I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move.
Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every bar in the score of ourselves is receding already into memory, into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen. — Barney Norris

Scale can create value for shareholders; for consumers, who are beneficiaries of better products, delivered more quickly and at less cost; for the businesses that are our customers; and for the economy as a whole. — Jamie Dimon

This palace,' he had said, 'is a small city, past lying close to present like one shoe next to another. If you look at them in a mirror, left becomes right, present becomes past ... — Patricia A. McKillip