Rabbit Maranville Quotes

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

Rabbit Maranville

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• I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • Guy
  • Cold
  • Battle

• I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Important
  • Country
  • Most

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Book
  • Wind
  • Teenager

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Bad
  • You
  • Race

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
  • Reality
  • Show
  • Shark

• Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Work
  • Present

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Me
  • Doors
  • Open

• Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.

  

  Mac Davis
  • World
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Think
  • Way
  • Resignation

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Feel
  • Find
  • Act

• Many people leave the country to see beautiful places. I just look out the window and see some of the most gorgeous scenery ever, right here in the USA.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Country
  • Beautiful

• And it feels like, finally.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Feels Like

• I have never seen the Old Testament prophets, but at the sight of that man floored by divine anger, widely straddling his enormous porcelain urinal and shielded by the tornado of his arms, a cloud of desperate contortions, above which his voice rose still higher, alien and hard-I came to understand the divine anger of holy men.

  

  Bruno Schulz
  • Men
  • Rose
  • Alien

• If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Men
  • May
  • Two

• Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Men
  • Horror
  • Join

• I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Respect