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“Love, it’s such a night, laced with running water, irreparable, riddled with a million leaks. A night shaped like a shadow thrown by your absence. Every crack trickles, every overhang drips. The screech of nighthawks has been replaced by the splash of rain. The rain falls from the height of streetlights. Each drop contains its own shattering blue bulb.”
Source : Stuart Dybek (2004). “The Coast of Chicago: Stories”, p.86, Picador
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“When I was in primary school, my best friend was a boy and we always goofed around, climbed trees, got holes in my trousers and muddied all my tops and things like that; a complete nightmare for the washing, but great fun.”
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“It's much better to invite the audience to be part of your show rather than saying, "I command you to do this." The other thing is, you have to follow through. If you initiate a game and they take part, you can't stop until it reaches a mutually satisfying resolution.”
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“If you have the stomach for stocks, but neither the time nor the inclination to do the homework, invest in equity mutual funds.”
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“They saw their injured country's woe.”
Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.521, Library of Alexandria
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“When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.”
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“The day I became press secretary to the President of the United States, I was in an entirely different world from the one I'd been in the day before.”
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“You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later.”
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“Sit there for five hours? Certainly not! A player must walk about between moves, it helps his thinking.”
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“The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.”
Source : Frederic William Farrar (1877). “Seekers After God”, p.86
