Bob Uecker Quotes
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.Bob Uecker
Quotes to Explore
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I love doing what I do. I love asking questions. I love being in the mix.
Larry King -
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
Dan Fogler -
When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
Captain Beefheart -
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
Harold MacMillan -
Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. Richter -
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.
Karl Barth
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Oscar Niemeyer -
I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.
Rachel Platten -
I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me – or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything!
Warren Spector -
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
Orlando Bloom -
I kind of just stumbled into producing. It was more that I was a writer, and the only way you were going to get your songs done was to do them yourself.
Babyface -
I certainly never saw myself as posh.
Laura Carmichael
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That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.
Damien Hirst -
I'm not afraid of stereotypes. There are some truths to it - but the problem is that people keep sort of owning that one thing to be the truth.
Mara Brock Akil -
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
D. B. Weiss -
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
Gary Weiss -
Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry -
The mystic cords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
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If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.
Anthony Doerr -
There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
Angela Duckworth -
If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'
Roy Blount, Jr. -
Advertisers and marketers should be looking to bring new experiences to different parts of the brain. It's a more profound idea than just dropping a billboard into a video game.
Jaron Lanier -
I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight.
Roberta Flack -
The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
Bob Uecker