There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.
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Related She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR It was just [cowardice]. That's trying to hurt people and there should be no place in the game for t... PAT QUINN We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee ... AVIJEET DAS Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I went in at halftime and you could just tell he was hurt. He had tears in his eyes because he loves... EUGENE WILSON Most of my kin are bastards," [Tyrion] said with a wry smile, "but you're the first I've had to frie... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We're well aware of that game. It was a CBS game, and it actually hurt us this year when Coach Pearl... DANE BRADSHAW Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL It's that sustained feeling of excitement we are searching for. In a game, you have it every play, a... BRANDON LANE The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You bet I'm upset, ... That's trying to hurt people and there should be no place in the game for tha... PAT QUINN Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of ... RAHUL DRAVID A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly... DAVID HENLEY We had seven turnovers and you're not going to win a game doing that. We were in the game, but you t... DAVE CRADDOCK You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a... SARAH J. MAAS You watch them and you see how much they hustle. You realize you're in for a long, tough game when y... LAUREN SPILLERS For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the othe... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The game is No. 1. You are an adjunct to the game. In a studio, there is no game. You are the star. ... AL MICHAELS We needed this, it's a rite of passage game, ... When you get through a game like this, it shows you... SIMEON RICE There's a lot of things. That's the mystery and we're trying to figure it out. I can't give you an a... JOE WALTERS And so the idea was, well maybe you can take an Atari video game machine, where people plug in a gam... STEVE CASE The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor... AL ÁLVAREZ There isn't so much love in the world that you can turn it away when it's offered. ROBERT CRAIS The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS You get the goose bumps going into this week on Monday and Tuesday. You realize how big of a game it... CARSON PALMER I went in at halftime, and you could just tell that he was hurting, ... He had tears in his eyes bec... EUGENE WILSON I went in at halftime, and you could just tell that he was hurting. He had tears in his eyes because... EUGENE WILSON That's golf and that's what makes it a great game. Everybody can find a stroke here or there, and yo... BRIAN PERRY And I wondered if love was too weak a word for what he felt, what he’d done for me. For what I fel... SARAH J. MAAS Matt is our guy. He's one of those guys that can turn the difference in the game. We play wide open,... GENE SOOLEY We took a lot from that loss. We lost our tempers a little in that game and it hurt, so we were very... JASON TREMBLAY There were so many emotional highs and lows in this game. It was like a roller coaster, a season in ... ANDY SCHULZ In the midst of the word he was trying to say / In the midst of his laughter and glee, / He had soft... LEWIS CARROLL People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several mont... BENNET OMALU Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at ... EVELYN GLENNIE We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! AVIJEET DAS Honestly, I love playing in games when so much is on the line. This was a big game, (Friday) night w... JASON TAPP When you turn on the tube you see him hitting six 3s in a game, so you know he can shoot the ball. A... GILBERT ARENAS Sometimes it can be difficult when you're talking to a journo after the game, saying, 'Yeah ... NICK CUMMINS Everybody was talking how this was different from playing in a regular high school game. There was s... BART EDDINS You've got to tweak your game to the rule changes. Now it's a flag if you turn into a guy while tryi... COREY CHAVOUS You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. BRANCH RICKEY He's a great person. You guys have been around him for the last little while and you realize how muc... ALEX TANGUAY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER He'd been struggling and I'm so happy for the lift he gave this team as a senior in a championship g... ALAN MAGNANI I've been a vegetarian for so long, I forgot how much I missed meat. You know you don't realize how ... BRITTANY DANIEL That game was so important to us that guys were down for a couple of days, ... Really, it was a big ... JAMES COOK Our thoughts and our prayers are turned towards Puck in Arizona. We all heard about this before lunc... RON GARDENHIRE That was a big win for us. We prepared for them in two days, but the coaches gave us a really good g... HENRY UHEGWU They realize that we have a game-breaker back there not only in Cadillac but in (Michael) Pittman an... DERRICK BROOKS I went to games as a spectator and I saw the fun that it was. I went to a high school game, went and... KYLE KORVER This is the second game in a row we came out turning the ball over. The pressure is probably what ca... ARRON AFFLALO Lord Snow wants to take my place now.' He sneered. 'I'd have an easier time teaching a wolf to juggl... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Everybody out there is playing hard and playing like a game. When you do that, sometimes you can get... DESHAWN STEVENSON It was an opportunity to spend time with my family and live a normal life back in Australia, ... Whe... ALICIA MOLIK I think the reason he's lasted so long is that the wins are secondary. I don't see how you can last ... DAN DEL PORTO So much of this game is mental. If you get mentally prepared and you're practicing the way you shoul... CRAIG ANDERSON And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia ... MEGAN MCCAFFERTY This game was huge. We had a lot of family and friends watching this game, and it was for bragging r... AMBER HAWKINS We were a little aggravated, for lack of a better word, for what happened in game two. We kind of to... DAVID REHR It's disappointing to have a big goose egg on the scoreboard at the end of the game. You expect to c... CHRIS CAROTHERS It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER He'll be seeing me out there, new guy, testing me. I can't see how you can't be ready for a game lik... KARL PAYMAH If this were a video game, you could just break everything in this room and a bunch of money would c... JESSE ANDREWS You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It was just a fun game, and a much-needed game. I have never been a part of that. It was just a grea... DAMIAN MILLER You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth. MICKEY MANTLE My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only th... SYLVIA PLATH Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive b... SYLVIA PLATH You never want to know when the season is going to end, unless you're in the Super Bowl. You go thro... JOE VITT A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this conf... EVANDER HOLYFIELD The second one, I actually forgot to match up (on defense). (Army) almost scored. You gotta realize ... ALEXIS HORNBUCKLE It's not as much about the game as it is about testing the facility with a large crowd in there. For... JOE STROHM I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW Sometimes it?s tough in a game like this when you get out to a lead like that. Players go in and wan... KATHY FEDORJAKA You've got a tremendous weapon in Peyton and what you want to do is take advantage of it. This game ... PEYTON MANNING Tim was a hockey guy. He loved the game. Whether he was critical of you or praised you, there was a ... BILL TORREY I don't shy away from telling you that if we didn't win this game and qualify for the state tourname... GARRICK PHILLIPS You try to stress the importance of this game for the kids. The kids knew what it meant in league st... DOUG HOLLOWAY It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM That was the game where I just couldn't do it anymore. There is a difference between being injured a... DONOVAN MCNABB I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all... CALLIE KHOURI It was a very entertaining game. You saw, both teams, who they are: meat-and-potato teams. Maybe thi... FLIP SAUNDERS Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have ... JONI MITCHELL
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SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. SYLVIA PLATH I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make... SYLVIA PLATH I think I may well be a Jew. SYLVIA PLATH With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is li... SYLVIA PLATH Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s he... SYLVIA PLATH There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu... SYLVIA PLATH I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de... SYLVIA PLATH The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther... SYLVIA PLATH I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too clo... SYLVIA PLATH I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. SYLVIA PLATH But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn... SYLVIA PLATH I felt wise and cynical as all hell. SYLVIA PLATH I was supposed to be having the time of my life. SYLVIA PLATH That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu... SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. SYLVIA PLATH When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photogr... SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ... SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ... SYLVIA PLATH My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ... SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the ... SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull. SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you? SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy? SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea... SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but... SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki... SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega... SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ... SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m... SYLVIA PLATH