Mike Schmidt Quotes

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Truth
  • Rich
  • Truth Is

• In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Language
  • Act
  • System

• You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Real
  • She
  • You

• I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Want
  • Death
  • Day

• I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• All the rappers in rave music are like the sloppy seconds of rappers who couldn't make it.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • Like
  • Rave

• Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Spring

• I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• Yeah, I just finished a novel. Man those things take forever to read.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Men
  • Forever
  • Novel

• The day will put a particular emphasis on educating people of all ages about the lessons to be learnt from genocide.

  

  Jack Straw
  • People
  • Lessons
  • Particular

• It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Compliments
  • Wears
  • Indiana Jones

• There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Church
  • Serious
  • Unity

• What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

  

  Lynn Barber
  • Parents
  • Education
  • Simon

• I feel like I am a lot of who I am because I watched these shows that said it was okay to be a total weirdo. Shows like 'Pete and Pete,' 'Hey, Dude,' 'Salute Your Shorts' - that's what I grew up with.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Feel
  • Shows
  • Weirdo

• I think that still, for the most part, even in 2010, the vast majority of museum shows and gallery shows and gallerists are pretty much dominated by men. So having a sense of what women are up to, for me, frankly, is very, very important.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Museum

• The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

  

  William Blake
  • Secret
  • Loving
  • Treasury

• Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Program

• I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

  

  Mike Schmidt
  • Shows
  • League
  • Cards