Joe Posnanski Quotes

Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.

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• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Help
  • Running
  • City

• I'm a very spontaneous person. If someone aggravates me, I'm going to go after them. I wake up every morning, and I say, 'What bad guys should I go after today?'

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Today

• Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Person
  • Intellectual

• The first wealth is health.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health
  • First
  • Wealth

• I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Parents
  • Blessed
  • Reflect

• These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • You
  • Rights

• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Question

• I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Man
  • Purpose
  • Like

• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Day

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Career
  • Tennis
  • Outside

• I think the way I eat is the foundation of my performance.

  

  Kris Humphries

• I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

  

  Jonathan Lethem
  • Good
  • Luck

• I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Home
  • She

• The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.

  

  David Sarnoff
  • Brain

• The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.

  

  Adela Rogers St. Johns
  • Truth
  • DIssolved

• Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.

  

  Joe Posnanski