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I can remember when, as a beginner, I was delighted with any ball as long as it would bounce. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#ball #beginner #bounce #delighted #i

I love the feel of hitting the ball hard, the pleasure of a rally. It is these things that make tennis the delightful game that it is. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#delightful #feel #game #hard #hitting

I had, of course, no model for that sort of woman being married, but I can make that up as I go along. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#being #course #go #had #i

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#about #all day #away #breeze #buds

I have a lot of trouble understanding all the detail of finance and administration - but if you combine intellectual and professional capacity with a social conscience, you can change things: countries, structures, economic models, colonial states. ↗

— Evo Morales

#capacity #change #change things #colonial #combine

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#actor #acts #deals #delicate #does

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beings #between #camera #delicious #distance

Alchemy is the art of far and near, and I think poetry is alchemy in that way. It's delightful to distort size, to see something that's tiny as though it were vast. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#art #delightful #distort #far #i

You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#better #chef #combine #cook #delectable