All Quotes

“I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again. After changing his famous "piratas" trousers for a more traditional look at the Madrid Masters [3]”

“It's impossible to explain what I felt in that moment, just very, very happy to win this title. For me, it is a dream to play in this tournament. But to win, I never imagined something like this. After beating five time champion Roger Federer in the 2008 Men's Wimbledon Final”

“Did you see the speed of the ball or not? When asked by a reporter why he spent so much time well behind the baseline against Fernando Verdasco in the Australian Open semifinals 2009 [4]”

“In your career you have a lot of good moments and bad ones. The important thing is to have enough motivation to keep working all the days with humility and trying to be a better player than before. I am going to try to continue doing this." [5]”

“One month and a half ago, I didn't know if I was going to be able to be back on the tour playing tennis again. And today, I am here in front of all of you having this trophy with me and you really don't know how much I fought to be here. I can't thank you enough for all the support that I received since I arrived here. After winning his record”

“I'm Rafa's number one fan. Roger Federer [7]”

“He's a fantastic player and he's going to be around so much longer so I'm happy with every one I get before he takes them all Roger Federer [8]”

“I felt like what I saw was the old classic Rafa on clay hardly losing sets and matches. That's what we got from him. That's why it's going to be incredibly hard to beat him here at Wimbledon. Roger Federer [9]”

“Richard Wright 's Blues”

“Brave Words for a Startling Occasion”

“The Art of Fiction: An Interview”

“Society, Morality and the Novel”

“Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke”

“The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstances, whether created by others or by one's own human failing. "Remembering Jimmy " (1958), in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 277.”

“Some Questions and Some Answers”

“The Golden Age, Time Past”

“What These Children Are Like”

“Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by. Shadow and Act (New York: Random House, 1964), Introduction, p. xix; in The Collected Essays , ed. John F. Callahan (New York: Modern Library, 1995), p. 56.”

“He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses. The Method of Nature (1841), p. 25”

“I fancy I need more than another to speak (rather than write), with such a formidable tendency to the lapidary style. I build my house of boulders. Letter to Thomas Carlyle”

“Walter Savage Landor”

“God may consent, but not forever.”

“If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,”

“Always put the best interpretation on a tenet. Why not on Christianity, wholesome, sweet, and poetic? It is the record of a pure and holy soul, humble, absolutely disinterested, a trutn”

“The clergy are as like as peas. "The Preacher", in The Index: A Weekly Paper (Feb. 5, 1880) pp. 62”

“Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever. From a lecture on Books given in the Fraternity Course in Boston in 1864; the quoted phrase 'glittering generalities' had been used by Rufus Choate to describe the declaration of the rights of man in the Preamble to the Constitution”

“A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster”

“Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. Parnassus (1874) Preface”

“Raúl is my bete noire”

“(Not) the Raúl thing , The Independent , June 6, 2006”