Warren Spahn Quotes

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

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• I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Love
  • Power
  • Voice

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • You
  • Taken
  • Care

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Confident

• I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Men
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Work
  • Imagination
  • Beauty

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Person
  • Period
  • Three

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Feeling

• I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Up
  • Love
  • Single

• I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • World
  • Wish
  • Dreams

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Book
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts

• I want people to think of me as a 'Mindset' guy, a journalist, a commentator, a social media personality, a filmmaker, an author, but I got to - I have to pivot so far away from anything pro-Trump, I just got to keep going that way.

  

  Mike Cernovich
  • Author
  • Away
  • Filmmaker

• Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • Work
  • Feel

• Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded.

  

  Fritz Zwicky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Life
  • Future

• Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

  

  Mark Vonnegut
  • People
  • Life
  • Job

• What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

  

  Warren Spahn
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Better