Christy Mathewson Quotes

A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

Christy Mathewson

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• I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Always
  • Star
  • Creative

• We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Live
  • Criticism
  • Circle

• Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Words
  • Language
  • Matter

• When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Boy
  • Child
  • Ship

• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Men
  • Long
  • Power

• However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Heart
  • Words

• Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Blessed

• Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • May
  • Always
  • Promise

• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • True
  • Day
  • Gold

• We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • America
  • Freedom

• Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Age
  • Space
  • Red

• I don't think there's ever been a team that ever scored more layups than that Blazers team.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Think
  • Team
  • More

• The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Best
  • Behavior
  • Blues

• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Writer

• What's to gain by silence?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Silence

• The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• I used to think that the British press were particularly awful to Cherie Blair. I think Blair's foreign policy was a complete disaster, but the British press, when they wanted to explain why Blair took unexpected moves, they did create Cherie as the power behind the throne.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Why
  • Power

• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Man
  • Greed

• Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Game
  • Political
  • Killed

• To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of like to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? Oh, reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts--this whispering "Peace, peace," when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Traveller

• I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.

  

  Tionne Watkins TLC
  • Work
  • God
  • Children

• I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

  

  Celine Dion
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Things

• A pitcher is not a ballplayer.

  

  Christy Mathewson