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Quotations is about words, written and spoken throughout history. Words speak to us through our eyes and our ears. They enrich our lives, allow us to communicate thoughts to others, and sometimes, last for generations. This podcast explores not only the words, but the speaker, author, figure, or character who originated them. To whom were they said or written? What was their intended effect and on whom? What was the originator thinking? Find out each episode and we discover new quotations, some familiar, some not!
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Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
Wednesday Apr 21, 2021
The Boys in the Boat is the simply fantastic story of the 1936 US Men's Rowing team at the Berlin Olympics. Daniel Brown wrote the chronicle of those eight men and their coxswain, their adversity, and ultimate triumph by less than a second over the Italian and German boats is one for the ages.
Brown describes rowing in today's quote, highlighting three paradoxes in descriptive and wonderful prose. It is often in life that the true beauty of accomplishment, athletic or otherwise, is found not only in what is done or avoided, but in the depth the world provides through contrast. Brown captures this perfectly.
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