Nellie Fox Quotes

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

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• When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Pain
  • Boy
  • Dog

• Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Friendship
  • Keep

• It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing
  • Without

• I'm not a violent person.

  

  Manute Bol
  • Person
  • Violent

• I just love to see people having a good time.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • World
  • Writing
  • Character

• I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Shows
  • Record

• That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Man

• All I'm saying is that there are many different kinds of political theatre and many plays I greatly admire: 'Antigone,' 'Mother Courage,' 'All My Sons.' But, if I tackle a political theme, I have to do it in my own way.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Political

• Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Reason
  • Happen

• Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Time
  • Men
  • Writing

• Noli turbare circulos meos. or Noli tangere circulos meos.

  

  Archimedes

• Now that this mess is almost behind me – I just have one last request: HBO, when you make the movie about this whole NBC late night fiasco, I’d like to be played by Academy-Award winning actress Tilda Swinton.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Movie
  • Night
  • Winning

• The rottenness comes from within.

  

  Agatha Christie

• Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

  

  Bill Hader

• I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little children under the palm trees.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I fell into conversation with Douglas. His is a split personality. À deux he is delightful; clever, funny, observant, drily cynical. But get him anywhere near 'display mode', particularly if there are officials around, and he might as well have a corncob up his arse. Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded.

  

  Alan Clark Dire Straits
  • Up
  • High
  • Funny

• I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • School
  • Happy

• Women and girls are bearing the brunt of extremists that revel in treating them barbarically. This is inextricably linked to our overall failure to prevent and end conflicts worldwide, which is causing human suffering on an unprecedented level.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Suffering

• We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

  

  Nellie Fox
  • Together
  • Stars
  • Superiors