William Howard Taft Quotes

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

William Howard Taft

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• Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Life
  • Great
  • School

• I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Love
  • Character
  • Worry

• What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.

  

  Gale Sayers
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Reason

• Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Best
  • Environment
  • Animals

• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Writing
  • Story
  • First

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Power

• As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Today
  • Child
  • Walls

• The goal of physiological research is functional nature.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Nature
  • Goal
  • Research

• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Age
  • Dad

• It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Different
  • Help
  • Pretty

• I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• I think people like it when you have a bit of personality.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Think
  • Personality

• Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it.

  

  Gerard Cox
  • Quality
  • Forward
  • Concepts

• In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.

  

  Xavi
  • Football
  • Win
  • Legacy

• I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Weird
  • Enjoy
  • Champion

• Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Baseball
  • Has Beens
  • Chuck

• I enjoy being healthy and I enjoy feeling healthy, and I know the difference when I don't take of myself. It's not like I am aiming for any particular goal or anything. It's more like it's a result of having balanced, healthy meals and just exercising.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • Feeling
  • Enjoy
  • Healthy

• The game of baseball is a clean, straight game, and it summons to its presence everybody who enjoys clean, straight athletics. It furnishes amusement to the thousands and thousands.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Enjoy
  • Baseball
  • Amusement