Slow Left Arm

Famous quotes containing the words slow, left and/or arm:

    “The true gardener then brushes over the ground with slow and gentle hand, to liberate a space for breath round some favourite; but he is not thinking about destruction except incidentally. It is only the amateur like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer.”
    —Freya Stark (1893–1993)

    “... parables are unnecessary for recognizing the blatant absurdity of everyday life. Reality is lesson enough.”
    —Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 2 (1980)

    “Innings and afternoons. Fly lost in sunset.
    Throwing arm gone bad. There’s your old ball game.
    Cool reek of the field. Reek of companions.”
    —Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)