#field

This is an apology letter to the both of us for how long it took me to let things go. It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try and keep some dead singer’s perspective alive. It’s just that I coulda swore you had sung me a love song back there and that you meant it but I guess sometimes people just chew with their mouth open so I ate ear plugs alive with my throat hoping they’d get lodged deep enough inside the empty spots that I wouldn’t have to hear you leaving ↗

— Buddy Wakefield

#hurling-crowbirds-at-mockingbars #poetry #love

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows. ↗

— Jack Kornfield

#life #love #wisdom #love

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, running around, not married, staying out all night. Ashamed!" "Ashamed!" my grandmother echoed. Good to know they still agreed on things after forty-three years of marriage. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#grandparents #marriage

There were probably about five games in my career where everything was moving in slow motion and you could be out there all day, totally in the zone, and you don't even know where you are on the field, everything is just totally blocked out. ↗

— Lawrence Taylor

#all day #blocked #career #could #day

You know, when you can play with the greatest players of that particular era, you look forward to going to the ballpark. I mean, you thought it was great to be there in the clubhouse. You thought it was great to be on the field. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#clubhouse #era #field #forward #going

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#ben #corn #ever #field #first

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#batting #field #get #had #him

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure. ↗

— Thomas Edward Brown

#calling #comes #countrymen #field #giving

I feel like I could dominate the origami field. I think I have enormous potential in that area. ↗

— Jon Cryer

#could #dominate #enormous #feel #field

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun. ↗

— Elmer Davis

#anything #authority #done #every #everybody