David Ortiz Quotes

If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
  • High
  • Career

• High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • High
  • Fashion

• Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.

  

  Hal Borland
  • High
  • Night
  • Summer

• I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • High
  • Want
  • Myself

• My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Think
  • High
  • Reason

• I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • School
  • High
  • Forever

• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • Bad
  • High

• The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • American
  • High

• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • High
  • Crime
  • Chair

• I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • High
  • Jesus
  • Walk

• As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Trying
  • Art
  • High

• There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • People
  • High
  • Change

• I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Power
  • High

• I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in western Utah - was a really small school. It wasn't developed. We didn't have the funds to do anything like that, but I did act all through high school in films because Disney Channel would shoot movies out there.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Favorite
  • Ever
  • Michael

• To win a truly great life for the people of Israel, a great peace is necessary, not a fictitious peace, the dwarfish peace that is no more than a feeble intermission, but a true peace with the neighboring peoples, which alone can render possible a common development of this portion of the earth as the vanguard of the awakening Near East.

  

  Martin Buber
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.

  

  Dick Van Patten
  • Long
  • Real
  • Family

• Aaron Spelling always had his finger on the pulse of pop culture, he knew what the public wanted to see. He was one of the most loyal men in this business and believed in me at a time in my career when no one else would.

  

  Alyssa Milano
  • Time
  • Men
  • Business

• If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that.

  

  David Ortiz
  • High