Ban Johnson Quotes

A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Game
  • Sweet
  • Friendship

• Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Time
  • Language

• What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Small
  • City
  • Like

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Music
  • Think

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Comfortable
  • Skin
  • Jew

• I never really did any disco dancing.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Never
  • Dancing
  • Disco

• I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Great
  • Growing

• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  

  Ovid
  • Heart
  • You
  • Soft

• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Father
  • Actor
  • More

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• I pass through the difficult moments in life, really difficult times on grass, during my seven years of my career. All of a sudden I felt comfortable.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Life
  • Career
  • Moments

• The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • World
  • Writing
  • Art

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Buildings
  • Off

• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Good
  • Eye
  • Movies

• September morn Do you remember how we danced that night away Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play September morning still can make me feel this way.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Remember
  • Night
  • Morning

• I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that's ridiculous.

  

  Philip Treacy
  • People
  • Women
  • Remember

• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • True
  • Society
  • Travel

• The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

  

  Alice Miller
  • Experience
  • Judging
  • Abuse

• A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

  

  Ban Johnson
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Game