Satchel Paige Quotes

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

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• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Inspired

• It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Money
  • Kid
  • Easier

• All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.

  

  Karl Philipp Moritz
  • Money
  • Sometimes
  • London

• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Devil
  • September
  • Friday

• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Business
  • Calm
  • Too Late

• I have no ill will about anything.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Will
  • Anything
  • Ill

• Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Love
  • Jesus

• I'm very lucky.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Lucky
  • Very

• I was like, 'I don't know if I could be an Olympian...' But my dad really influenced me to stay and be in the Olympics.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Know
  • Me
  • Dad

• I would say I am an amateur guitarist.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Guitarist
  • Amateur

• Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • See
  • Perception
  • Computers

• As a Liverpool fan, I'm an eternal optimist because of what we did in Istanbul in 2005.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Eternal
  • Optimist
  • Liverpool

• My dad planned a road trip every summer, so we always did the road trip. We did the Eastern Seaboard and learned about the history of the United States.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • History
  • Dad
  • Road

• I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Will
  • Saying
  • Release

• Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Mind
  • Sometimes
  • Deep

• Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Mean
  • Wedding
  • Bride

• I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Long
  • Soul

• However,' said Dumbledore, speaking very slowly and clearly so that none of them could miss a word, 'you will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. You will also find that help will be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School
  • Help

• I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them.

  

  Rutger Hauer
  • Interesting
  • Film
  • Bigs

• My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

  

  Satchel Paige
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