Chili Davis Quotes

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

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• I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Good
  • Car

• I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Family
  • Business
  • American

• I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Today
  • Government
  • Vote

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • God
  • Human
  • King

• We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • People
  • Saints
  • Appointment

• Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Change
  • Evolution
  • Happen

• I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Night
  • Day
  • Morning

• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Me
  • Literature
  • Nervous

• Fame came quickly. I was only 19 when I secured my initial recording contract and my first two hit records - 'Are 'Friends' Electric?' and 'Cars' - were number ones.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Friends
  • First
  • Fame

• I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • People
  • Important
  • Old

• You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• In general, I tend to laugh too much. I always try to tell myself not to, but I think that's just part of getting through the job. It's not rocket science. I want to have a good time!

  

  Zach Woodlee
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Things
  • Winning
  • Habit

• I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Time
  • Wonderful
  • Rejection

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

  

  Galway Kinnell
  • Poetry
  • Understand
  • Profound

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.

  

  Brian Moore
  • Long
  • Country
  • Journey

• While forced to dwell apart from thy dear face, Love, robed like sorrow, led me by the hand And taught my doubting heart to understand That which has puzzled all the human race.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Human

• I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

  

  Chili Davis
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