Frank Robinson Quotes

If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

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• I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • School
  • Day
  • Positive

• I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Team
  • Football
  • Never

• There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Thought

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Where
  • Anybody
  • Influenced

• I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Think
  • Opportunity

• I have worked with top directors like Rajamouli and Vinayak and with upcoming directors like Vamsi.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Like
  • Directors
  • Top

• The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • American
  • Law
  • Professional

• I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Movie
  • Change
  • Artist

• There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • Men
  • Drinking

• Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Dark
  • Child
  • Celebrity

• It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Writing
  • Relax
  • Profession

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Family
  • Care
  • Employees

• If any of us caught a fever during pregnancy, we would seek advice and support from a doctor. Getting help with our mental health is no different - our children need us to look after ourselves and get the support we need.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Different
  • Children
  • Help

• I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

  

  Jack Finney
  • Up
  • Said
  • Thanks

• For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• Not many child stars make it out of Hollywood alive or sane, and at any given time there are at least three former ones having very public breakdowns.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Time
  • Child
  • Stars

• No particular place to go, So we parked way out on the Kokomo The night was young and the moon was bold So we both decided to take a stroll Can you imagine the way I felt? I couldn't unfasten her safety belt!

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Safety

• Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Morning

• I see the love in my child's eyes when he sees me, and I know it's gigantic. As an older person, I've been in love before, and I've loved, but this is really an immense, out-of-control-proportion amount of love that you can't even describe.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Control
  • Eyes

• Your doctrines are remarkable! As if I existed only to fulfill your cravings! Then, since I do not care to do so, the cosmos must be considered insane.

  

  Jack Vance

• The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

  

  Misty May-Treanor
  • Vegetables
  • Which
  • Colorful

• If he can hit, he can hit. I don't care if he came from Class Z league.

  

  Frank Robinson