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
  • Man
  • Dream

• 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

• As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

  

  John Thorn
  • Heart
  • Game
  • Reality

• Every atom in the human body, excluding only the primordial hydrogen atoms, was fashioned in stars that formed, grew old and exploded most violently before the Sun and the Earth came into being.

  

  Nigel Calder
  • Body
  • Stars
  • Atom

• People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Long
  • Conviction

• Do you subscribe to the Weekly Standard? Does that magazine hate America?

  

  David Shuster
  • America
  • Hate

• No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

  

  J. D. McClatchy
  • Should
  • Floats

• 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