Pete Rose Quotes

Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.

Pete Rose

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• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Real
  • Me
  • Husband

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • She
  • Girl
  • Feel

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Doing
  • Hatred

• Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Light
  • Day

• There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Worth It

• There's an explosion of Indian fiction of all kinds, from military thrillers to chicklit. I think that's exciting.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Think
  • Military
  • Fiction

• Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

  

  LaToya London
  • Career
  • Publicity
  • Fox

• If the awards buzz is happening, and it's coming from critics and people in the business and all of that, that's only more good news.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Control

• I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Want
  • Writer
  • Will

• I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Live
  • Know
  • Years

• Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got through it; second, how we can share it. The experience doesn't stay trapped within us, unspoken, curdling - instead, the art of arranging and transforming it reduces the burden. It no longer belongs to only you.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Giving

• Did you figure out the second head fake? This talk's not for you. It's for my kids.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Kids
  • Fake

• Hypotheses are scaffoldings erected in front of a building and then dismantled when the building is finished. They are indispensable for the workman; but you mustn't mistake the scaffolding for the building.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mistake

• There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Law

• There are those fallen who don’t get up so as not to fall again.

  

  Antonio Porchia
  • Up
  • Fall

• Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

  

  William Hamilton Maxwell
  • Witness
  • Execution
  • Billing

• Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

  

  David Bowie
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Synonym

• Throw no gyft agayne at the geuers head, For better is halfe a lofe than no bread.

  

  John Heywood

• I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Fire

• Sometimes, when you don't have spark, someone in the dugout has to create something.

  

  Pete Rose