Eugene Field Quotes
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
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A pitcher has to look at the hitter as his mortal enemy.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
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Be silent always when you doubt your Sense.
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions.
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The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
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That's definitely more of a classic sound. We've been encouraging him to do it for quite some time and I'm glad that he's finally come to his senses and has decided to show the world how great he can rip on that thing.
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The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.
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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses...
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They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.
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I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
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Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.
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Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.
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The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for.
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In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.
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Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.
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Adolescence is a plague on the senses.
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A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own temperament, which it is that chooses them, eliminating all those who would not be at once our opposite and our complement, fitted that is to say to gratify our senses and to wring our heart.
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To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of what it means to be happy or content.
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In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.
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Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers.
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Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.
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How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
