Charcas Quotes

#1. What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.

Don Drysdale

#3. When the sunne shineth, make hay.

John Heywood

#4. Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!

John Ciardi

#5. The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.

Coleman Barks

#7. And that's the soulful thing about playing: you offer something to somebody. You don't know if they'll like it, but you offer it.

Wynton Marsalis

#8. There is a certain thing that you have to just stick to the plan, stick to what you want to do, and you try to work with studios and executives that they get it.

Alfonso Cuaron

#9. And a while later:
'It is a strange sort of pain.'
Softly.
'To die of yearning for something you'll never experience.

Alessandro Baricco