Nijinsky Afternoon Quotes

#1. There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man.

Michael Lewis

#2. It often struck me as strange and disagreeable to hear him utter severe strictures upon some of these persons who seemed to me so good.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar ... It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.

John Gould Fletcher

#5. Life - give me life until the end,
That at the very top of being,
The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
Out of the reddest hell of the fight
I may be snatched and flung
Into the everlasting lull,
The immortal, incommunicable dream.

William Ernest Henley

#6. Regional dialects have to become national tongues before they can attain lasting glory. As with America, as with Australia. Scottish is different because Scotland considers itself to be a nation. Its language deserves a chapter to itself.

Anthony Burgess

#7. Now I'm about to make myself feel better, you stupid selfish shit," I informed him in a calm, cold voice.
"Go ahead, Beau, hit me."
I didn't need another invitation ...

Abbi Glines

#8. I was the legal counsel in the effort to amend the Virginia Constitution to give Virginians the right to hunt and fish constitutionally, and we are one of the few states in the country to protect that right.

Tim Kaine

#9. Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

Francesca Lia Block

#10. That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Saoirse Ronan

#11. Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. We've got some well-run corporations by some well-intended people who do it right.

Joe Jamail