Jimmy Piersall Quotes

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

Jimmy Piersall

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• In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.

  

  Maggie Carey
  • Always
  • Old
  • Expensive

• The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Secure

• The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Truth
  • Technology
  • Better

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• I don't think about the media.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Think
  • Media
  • About

• Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Something
  • Abundance
  • Tune

• People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Winning
  • Seven
  • Unfair

• When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Moon
  • Going
  • Doctors

• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Relationships

• I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Good
  • Live
  • Die

• Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Respect

• Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fall
  • Back
  • Minutes

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Book
  • Sunshine
  • Twilight

• Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren-or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

  

  Kenzo Tange

• When you think about little league football, high school, and even on to college even more so, you're dealing with a lot of guys that are prideful, that think they're the best - a lot of alpha males. So, typically, you've got to have a guy that can control those guys, and, when he talks, they know he means business. He's a serious guy.

  

  Adrian Peterson
  • School
  • Business
  • High

• As a kid, I watched a lot of TV.

  

  Ari Graynor

• Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened.

  

  Jimmy Piersall