Baseball Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“Sometimes I think that it is only the monstrous conceit of mankind which makes him think that all this stage was erected for him…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I like imagining that he punished his body for me, torturing it into such spectacular shape, hoping that one day I'd be able to…

— Collette West

“I hadn't hold out much hope for myself; if my counterpart existed, he'd be amazingly talented to make up for my shortcoming, and that…

— Joss Stirling

“I waited for him to find an answer. Minutes passed. It came to me that he had quit. He had glimpsed a glorious ideal,…

— John Gardner

“After a few minutes, he pushed the daydream away again, unable to bear the pain. It had always been a slender hope and had…

— Megan Derr

“I put my hand on a bishop, my would be assassin, and thought of my father's heights when he won, how he galloped around.…

— Rion Amilcar Scott

“Tomorrow, he told himself. Tomorrow he would face Weep, and his duty, and the nightmares that stalked him. Somehow, he would find the courage…

— Laini Taylor

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“I wish that some time, long ago, something had not been said that was said, or something done that was not done. Something, had…

— Roger Zelazny

“Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wondering what he, my boss,…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“How he wishes it could be true! He is tired of shadows, of complications, of complicated people.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Until that moment, although I’d had some trouble with his personality, I had not thought him totally lacking in perspicacity; now I was not…

— William Styron