Paul Gallico Quotes

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

Paul Gallico

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• I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Different
  • Important
  • Happy

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• Still to this day, I don't know when I write something whether it's good or not.

  

  Watt Key
  • Good
  • Know
  • Day

• The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Men
  • Wish
  • Pain

• Tony Orlando is one of the nicest guys I have ever met - bar none - in my entire life. I was always a fan when I was a kid - you know, huge fan. Who wasn't a fan of Tony Orlando?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Know
  • Always

• China is the big economic engine in Asia, so what happens is, as China growth expands, these countries in the periphery of China, whether it be Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, they end up growing with China because they become big exporters.

  

  Gary Cohn
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growth

• An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Size
  • January
  • Immigrant

• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• Close friends consider me a literary snob.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Literary

• A woman simply is, but a man must become.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Man
  • Woman

• Shinsuke Nakamura is probably one of the best wrestlers I've ever been in the ring with. He's very unorthodox. Everything he does is with knockout power. He's a guy who is very flamboyant, so don't let his Michael Jackson antics fool you. This guy is deadly.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Power
  • Guy
  • Best

• Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Red
  • Just
  • Texas

• I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Know
  • Feel

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• Wealth is just consistency... I don't want to be rich. I want to be wealthy.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Rich
  • Wealth
  • Consistency

• I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Life
  • Time
  • Same

• There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Natural

• If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Getting
  • Out
  • Homer

• Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Up
  • Game
  • Football

• Hey, it's been a great ride for me, a great life. Everything I have I owe to baseball. Baseball owes me nothin'. Ain't nobody has to give me nothin'. I would be embarrassed if I had a day somewhere. I don't want no day. I want friends, to live my life the way I wanna live it.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Result
  • God's Hands

• Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Success
  • Desire
  • Learning

• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  

  Paul Gallico
  • Baseball
  • Result
  • Motive