Nellie Fox Quotes

All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

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• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Long
  • Win
  • Argument

• I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Family
  • Years
  • Chinese

• I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• I do have a few personalities. When people started making a big deal out of it, I started making names for these people.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Personality
  • Bigs

• Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.

  

  Walker Percy
  • People
  • Children
  • History

• What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • World
  • Great
  • Trying

• It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business that grosses me out. I'm always bummed out for people who just happen to be dating a celebrity, and they're also famous, and they can't live their life.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• ... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Feeling
  • Hate
  • Feelings

• I have a sense of greatness, which comes from feeling that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing on the planet - empowering people, especially women.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Women
  • Feeling

• I used to think that eighty was a very old age. Now I am ninety. I do not think this any more. As long as you are able to admire and to love, you are young.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Age

• You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Murderer
  • Suit

• You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Political
  • Opposites
  • Hunters

• It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose, it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall, making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had still appeared to be a living beauty.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Book
  • Fall
  • Summer

• I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Spiritual
  • Moon
  • Sand

• I'm funkier than a locker room after a hoop game.

  

  Andre Louis Hicks
  • Game
  • Games
  • Hip Hop

• I'm very specific about scripts that I like. I don't have a master plan or, like, a game plan. I don't have a chart that I'm following or anything like that. I'm very much playing it by ear. Certain things just happen and it's undeniable, you just go that way. But I don't have a specific path I'm following, I'm just playing it by ear.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Game
  • Way
  • Path

• For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Wells
  • Cowboy
  • Fabulous

• All small men, all non-power hitters, must learn to bunt well. It's half your game.

  

  Nellie Fox
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