Quotes April 15, 2020

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Edna St. Vincent Millay,
poet, playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner
 
 
 
 
The energy doesn’t end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.
Bob Fosse,
dancer, choreographer, actor, theater and film director
 
 
 
 
Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain’t what you ain’t.
John Prine,
folk singer-songwriter
1946-2020
 
 
 
 
Success isn’t determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.
Pele (Edson Arantes do Nascimento),
professional Brazilian football player
 
 
 
 
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie,
writer
 
 
 
 
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law,
Major League Baseball pitcher
 
 
 
 
Each thing implies the universe.
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges,
writer, essayist, poet, translator