“The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.”– David Gower Related Quotes “I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.”— Leni Riefenstahl “All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.”— Spalding Gray “The remarkable thing about the world of insects, however, is precisely that there is no veil cast over these horrors. These are mysteries performed in broad daylight before our very eyes; we can see every detail, and yet they are still mysteries. If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither “declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs,” then clearly I had better be scrying the signs. The earth devotes an overwhelming proportion of its energy to these buzzings and leaps in the grass. Theirs is the biggest wedge of the pie: Why? I ought to keep a giant water bug in an aquarium on my dresser, so I can think about it.”— Annie Dillard