Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.
At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment. "We can't. . . " He told me. "I know," I agreed. Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time I knew there would be no turning back.
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.
You've got to keep your body active, even if that means just turning on some music and dancing for an hour. . . . That's how you;ll prepare your bodies and your minds for greatness.
Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.
Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual before turning on the computer. The excitement of improvisation lies not only in the risk of being involved but in the new ideas, as heady as the adrenaline of performance, that seems to come from nowhere.
And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.
When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.
A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?
CNN has a thing called You Choose the News. Y'know what CNN? I'm turning you on because I don't know the news. I was hoping you could help me.
Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.
The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.
Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves.
The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.