Johnny Evers Quotes

I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

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• Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Focus
  • Style
  • Budget

• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Opportunities
  • Become
  • Rally

• Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Great
  • Country
  • Back

• I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Love
  • Team
  • Personal

• When I was 6, I opened my mouth and didn't stop singing. I had a voice and wanted to use it.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Stop
  • Singing
  • Voice

• I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.

  

  Kate Williams
  • World
  • Team
  • Planning

• I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Devil
  • Scandal
  • Boardwalk Empire

• I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.

  

  Val McDermid
  • She
  • You
  • Said

• I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Favorite
  • Pink
  • Sign

• There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Different
  • Writing
  • May

• For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Help
  • Team
  • Beginning

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Problem
  • Where

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Today
  • Desire

• There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Pressure

• I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine and Sidney Poitier in 'The Wilby Conspiracy' - but everyone told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place, they said, and I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.

  

  Persis Khambatta
  • Career
  • Growing
  • Model

• I feel 100% a Yamaha rider in my heart. I had a long career and raced with several factory bikes, but the highlight of my career is undoubtedly with Yamaha.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Career

• If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Family

• When I was playing, there were always lots of teams in contention for the league - Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool, Leeds. Every week was a big game and a big battle.

  

  George Best
  • Game
  • City

• I am convinced that in my own career I could usually have hit 30 points higher if I had made a specialty of hitting.

  

  Johnny Evers
  • Career