Nellie Fox Quotes

(Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

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• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I would think about the outcome. Visualize sometimes. Because it never comes out the way you want it to. Fight the way I know how to fight. Whatever comes up, comes up.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Way
  • Study
  • Everything

• If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Me
  • Friend
  • Cute

• The great love of my life is music.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
  • Think
  • Like
  • Half

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Me
  • Action
  • Sin

• Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.

  

  Sam Kean
  • High
  • Human
  • Project

• Four hundred is a lot. When I was young, I remember Kapil Dev getting it, and it was quite a big thing. An Indian had taken it. I feel honoured and proud that God has given me a chance to reach 400 wickets. It's a big thing for me; I don't know about others.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • God
  • Remember
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• I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Country
  • Today
  • Loved

• I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Want
  • Create
  • I Can

• Alike for those who for To-day prepare, And those that after some To-morrow stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries 'Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There'.

  

  Omar Khayyam

• I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about..

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Thinking

• Little Richard was it for me, man. Later, it was Ray Charles and Bobby 'Blue' Bland, B.B. King.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • King
  • Blue

• When suspicion and hostility is allowed to fester, it can erupt into unrest.

  

  Loretta Lynch

• Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.

  

  Dick York
  • God
  • Confused

• I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Attention

• I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

  

  Jon Favreau
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Unknown

• I mean, to win a major, you've got to be a good player and you've got to get your breaks, as well, to win.

  

  Retief Goosen
  • Player
  • Winning
  • Majors

• It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• (Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

  

  Nellie Fox
  • Player
  • Minors
  • Landi