"Life is tough and brimming with loss, and……" — Roger Angell
"Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around."
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22 Quotes by Roger Angell
Roger Angell has 22 quotes on this site.
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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours,…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay…
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success…
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What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting…
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players,…
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The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the…
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I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more…
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More Brimming Quotes
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The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming…
— Cynthia Heimel
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Love's over brimming mystery joins death and life. It has filled my cup of pain with joy.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When…
— Bill W.
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That’s why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can’t channel surf for long without seeing…
— Stephen Colbert
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Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light,…
— Louis Untermeyer
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Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet…
— Ken Tucker
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A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite…
— Unknown Author
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Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when…
— Christopher Kimball
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The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming…
— Colin McGinn
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Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for…
— Homer
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