Famous quotes containing the words ball, bearing and/or world:
“Lifes like a ball game. You gotta take a swing at whatever comes along before you wake up and find out its the ninth inning.”
—Martin Goldsmith, and Edgar G. Ulmer. Vera (Ann Savage)
“Reason, the prized reality, the Law, is apprehended, now and then, for a serene and profound moment, amidst the hubbub of cares and works which have no direct bearing on it;Mis then lost, for months or years, and again found, for an interval, to be lost again. If we compute it in time, we may, in fifty years, have half a dozen reasonable hours.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“When the whole world is writing letters, its easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep alive the narrating inner life. To be alone in the presence of ones thought is not a value, only a common practice.”
—Vivian Gornick (b. 1935)