Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
Quotes to Explore
-
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
-
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
-
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
-
Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
-
I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
-
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.
-
Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
-
Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
-
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
-
You can't be in love with a Google search.
-
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
-
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
-
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.
-
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
-
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction.
-
At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
-
I've won plenty of games by knowing when to take out my pitcher; whom to replace him with; or how to place my infield or outfield to defend properly against the opposing hitter.
-
A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
-
The first presidential election I really paid attention to was in 1988 when George H. W. Bush ran against Michael Dukakis.
-
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.
-
God, why didn't you make Woman first - when you were fresh?
-
I am ninety. Or ninety-three. One or the other.
-
You're not allowed to give yourself a nickname. This holds true in life as well as in poker.
-
Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.
