#yin

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#better #chance #given #i #little

The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#could #difference #get #just #make

One by one the angels had come to the top of Har Megiddo where I sat, holding her body close to mine after she'd died. I'd fought alongside them in battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. the angels weren't supposed to feel emotions, but they were all weeping. All of them. Their tear stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone. Azrael was the only one of then who came to me, knelt in front of me and took her from my arms. He was the angel of death come to carry his sister home. I din't want to give her up, knowing it would be the last time I ever saw her face. I had died on that wretched hill with her. ↗

— Courtney Allison Moulton

#can-t-be-happening #crying #loving #sad #beauty

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#hit #i #influence #interested #jaws

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#arm #asthmatic #carrying #equalled #his

I was buying Bob Dylan mainly, everything I could get hold of by him. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#bob dylan #buying #could #dylan #everything

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#competent #drawings #i #line #most

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#anyone #away #books #done #family

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#both #carry #day #die #dying

I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#awful #because #cancer #case #certainty