Bill James Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
-
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
-
My health is fine.
-
The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
-
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
-
I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
-
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
-
Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
-
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
-
Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
-
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
-
As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
-
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
-
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
-
One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
-
Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
-
Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
-
I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
-
You have to know what you want out of your work or out of your life.
-
For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.
-
I kind of like carbon taxes because we already know how to apply them. We already have apparatus in place. When we talk about these other solutions - like a billion tons of iron filings in the ocean or putting sunshades between us and the sun - they're huge. We have no idea if they will work. We have no idea what their nasty consequences might be. And it's unlikely we can do them anyway.
-
The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.
-
Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
