A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

No one man is superior to the game.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Relationship
  • Government

• Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Me
  • Star

• I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Teacher
  • Down
  • Scared

• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • People
  • Good
  • Food

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• I am basically a citizen of the modern world, as we all are, praise the Lord and damn us all to hell.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • World
  • Hell
  • Lord

• I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.

  

  Yasmine Al Masri
  • Up
  • Baby
  • Old

• The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Politics
  • Bible
  • Sin

• One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Poet

• There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Writing
  • Story
  • Short

• It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Live
  • Best
  • Honor

• Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Future

• I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • She
  • Age
  • Strong

• You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.

  

  Larry Gagosian
  • Time
  • You
  • Where

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Memory
  • Writer
  • Without

• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

  

  John Huston
  • World
  • Together
  • Small

• in order to confer their lost Nationality upon exiled Jews , the British with the help of the League of Nations began to rehabilitate the old Hebrew country, Palestine, with its long lost children. The Jews had maintained their race, religion, culture and language; and all they wanted was their natural territory to complete their Nationality. The reconstruction of the Hebrew Nation on Palestine is just an affirmation of the fact that Country, Race, Religion, Culture and Language must exist unequivocally together to form the Nation idea.

  

  M. S. Golwalkar
  • Long
  • Country
  • Children

• Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

  

  Walter Lang
  • God
  • Environment
  • Adaptation

• If, as the popular saying goes, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, the people who run our public schools fit that description.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Different
  • Popular

• It's a very sad thing to do, to divorce.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • Sad
  • Divorce

• No one man is superior to the game.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Game
  • Man
  • Superior