Ernie Banks Quotes

I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

Ernie Banks

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• What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
  • Never
  • Lies

• I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Twitter

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Know
  • Player
  • Fans

• Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Language
  • Painting
  • Escape

• Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Today
  • Alone
  • Journey

• Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Real
  • Education
  • Training

• I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Bible
  • Teach
  • Pastor

• If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Discipline
  • Criticism

• Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Great
  • Country
  • Yes

• The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Mind
  • Human
  • Assumption

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Play

• The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Government
  • Service
  • Run

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• I've never been able to get it straight about what these people who are worried about the trade deficit are worried about.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Never
  • Been

• A team is a group of players who support one another on court and who think of the group before they think of themselves

  

  K. C. Jones
  • Team
  • Support
  • Player

• You have to plan ahead so that rather then seek revenge for the horse's misbehavior, you see his aggressive behavior shaping up and can redirect it. You change his mind before he's acted and move on to something else.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Revenge
  • Plan
  • Horse's misbehavior

• I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

  

  Anna Deavere Smith
  • Important
  • Home
  • Question

• By putting a border line between life and death, we separate the world of death from our world of life, casting the dead away into the "world of oblivion".

  

  Yasumasa Morimura
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• I'd like to get to the last game of the World Series at Wrigley Field and hit three homers. That was what I always wanted to do.

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Game
  • Wanted
  • Homers