Bobby Bonilla Quotes

I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

Bobby Bonilla

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• We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Help

• We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Experience

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'

  

  Os Guinness
  • America
  • City
  • Christian

• A lot of people have asked whether acting is in my genes. I don't know if anyone is born to act. And it certainly wasn't pushed on me. It was something I wanted to do.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Born
  • Act

• I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Got

• I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

  

  Larry David
  • Embrace
  • Stay
  • Panic

• I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Great
  • Create
  • Fiction

• It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Art

• My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Life
  • Live
  • True

• The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Period

• From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • God
  • Children
  • Watches

• It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • America
  • Political
  • Faith

• Terror cannot be finished by one war.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • War
  • Terror
  • Finished

• I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between father and son will be very good. The comedy will be hilarious, but it is not a forced comedy.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Father
  • Light

• Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Wise

• 'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,'As it hurried down the hill.'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Small

• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as 'kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in.' But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of 'low intensity conflict...' What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Lies
  • Kiss

• Senators, representatives too often, we hear from our base, don't talk to the other side, don't with work with them.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Work

• We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • People
  • Past
  • Attitude

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I believe that my art gets across the point that I'm in this morality theater trying to help the underdog, and I'm speaking socially here, showing concern and making psychological and philosophical statements for the underdog.

  

  Jeff Koons
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Art

• I'm not afraid to swing the bat. If they elect to pitch to me, I'm going to swing. I'm not as picky as Mr. Sheffield. I'll swing at something over my head.

  

  Bobby Bonilla