Home Run Baker Quotes
The farmer doesn't care for the pitchers' battle that resolves itself into a checkers game. The farmer loves the dramatic, and slugging is more dramatic than even the cleverest pitching.
Home Run Baker
Quotes to Explore
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
Natalie Babbitt
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.
Gabrielle Zevin
I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.
Randeep Hooda
I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dating a few people who were from old money and a few from new money in my 20s, I just sort of became obsessed with this idea of clueless rich people.
Natasha Leggero
When I was a Laker Girl, I only danced for three months. We did not get paid that much money, and I was working two jobs at the time. I thought that it would be a little more fun, but it was quite stressful. It's all about your weight, your hair, having the right hair extensions, what to wear, the kind of shoes you wore.
Taylour Paige
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
Walter Hill
Hong Kong has plenty of superlative hotels, amazing food, and cool shopping.
Hanya Yanagihara
When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
Frances McDormand
The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.
Olusegun Obasanjo
The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded everything I did from the day I began trying to write songs. I've always had a lot to say. I'd always written poems.
Adam Goldberg
