John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

John Lancaster Spalding

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Important
  • Best
  • Training

• I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Think
  • You
  • Go

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.

  

  Nathalie Kelley
  • People
  • High
  • Feel

• I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.

  

  Sam Neill
  • America
  • Want
  • Learn

• I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

  

  R. Kelly
  • History
  • Day
  • Chicago

• I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• I'm a really bad liar.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Bad
  • Really
  • Liar

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Need
  • Slavery

• Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Different
  • School
  • Education

• If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Doing
  • Process

• I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Fun
  • Pants
  • Thriller

• That was my dream, to compete against the best surfers in the best waves. But as a kid, it all seemed so unattainable. It was this big dream, but deep down I never thought it could really happen. But my parents always believed I could do it, and they helped me get through all the stages and take all the right steps.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Dream
  • Parents
  • Best

• My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Work
  • Great
  • Men

• You always see black people complaining about this and that, but you never see me complaining about how slow they work on my plantation.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Work
  • Black

• 'We need a guy who plays dodge ball and thinks he's a pirate - get me Alan Tudyk on the phone!' Those are the jobs I do.

  

  Alan Tudyk
  • Guy
  • Pirate

• Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • God
  • May
  • Black

• We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Children
  • May