Minna Antrim Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
-
I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
-
There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
-
We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
-
I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.
-
I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
-
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
-
Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
-
Respect was mingled with surprise,And the stern joy which warriors feelIn foeman worthy of their steel.
-
'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
-
Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.
-
We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.
-
I don't think many people can say they've been the lead in a Spielberg film and still been able to live their normal life that they had before.
-
Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.
-
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
-
Be friends with everybody. When you have friends, you will know there is somebody who will stand by you.
-
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their letters, and when I have to bridge the chasms between the factual evidence, I try to make an intuitive leap through the eyes and motivation of the person I'm writing about.
-
Recording a Hindi song takes me around 40 minutes whereas a Kannada song takes me about two hours. The music isn't a problem, since the notes used are universal. The language is the problem. I try my best to get it right, as I'm sensitive about respecting every language, since all of them are sacred in my heart.
-
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.
