Christy Mathewson Quotes

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

Christy Mathewson

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• I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Home
  • Want
  • Europe

• My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Nature
  • Best
  • Language

• Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Career
  • Never
  • Swimming

• I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Think
  • Responsibility

• If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Money
  • Man
  • Meet

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Society
  • Never
  • New

• I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants.

  

  Pat Sajak
  • Drug
  • Congress
  • Members

• I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Thoughts
  • Chaos
  • Stand

• I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • School
  • Home
  • Learn

• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  

  Sallust
  • Better
  • Fair
  • Conquer

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • You
  • Language

• I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Work
  • Happy

• People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • More
  • Optimistic

• A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Senior

• I acted my heart out.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Heart
  • Out
  • Acted

• They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Good
  • Real
  • Job

• I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

  

  James Ellroy
  • Thinking
  • American
  • History

• I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Live
  • Real

• At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Wind
  • Bird

• There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Car
  • Certain
  • Bravery

• A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

  

  Christy Mathewson
  • Training
  • Spring