Free Throws Attempted

Famous quotes containing the words free, throws and/or attempted:

    “As men’s habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another to scoff, I conclude ... that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits.”
    —Baruch (Benedict)

    “It is complete within seconds, that monument.
    The blood runs underground yet brings forth a tower.
    A multitude should gather for such an edifice.
    For a miracle one stands in line and throws confetti.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “There is ... a class of fancies, of exquisite delicacy, which are not thoughts, and to which, as yet, I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language.... Now, so entire is my faith in the power of words, that at times, I have believed it possible to embody even the evanescence of fancies such as I have attempted to describe.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)