Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

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• I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Think
  • Matter
  • Where

• John Green was on the set of 'The Fault In Our Stars' the entire time, which is amazing! Wouldn't you want John Green on set the entire time?

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Green

• You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Earth
  • You
  • Cure

• Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Different
  • Will
  • Patterns

• I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Way
  • Me
  • Better

• At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Time
  • Good
  • Age

• We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Time
  • Judge

• If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Why
  • Forever

• The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • True
  • Space

• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Political
  • Energy
  • Balance

• When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Country
  • Real

• I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • Politicians
  • Corrupt

• When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it's really empowering.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Kids
  • Change
  • Destiny

• I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news channels, they sensationalize the story, they focus on gossip, and they don't actually tell the full story.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Focus
  • Media
  • Gossip

• Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Free
  • Globalization

• I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Interesting
  • Football
  • Basketball

• I am a very hopeful person.

  

  Jessica Capshaw

• Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Good
  • May
  • Moral

• I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.

  

  Ben Chandler
  • Happy
  • Political
  • Hand

• I haven't got an opportunity to experiment with the dimensions of my moustache much. But yes, if the role demands, I'm ready to shave it off. I feel it's good to have moustaches for South films, but I'd love to remove my moustache; why not?

  

  Ravi Teja
  • Role
  • Remove
  • Moustache

• If Newt Gingrich would be President tomorrow, I would be a happy person.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • President
  • Tomorrow
  • Newt Gingrich

• In recent years, we have seen technology advance at lightning speed, allowing us to accomplish lifesaving feats never imagined before. It is our responsibility to ensure that these advances are used for positive medical breakthroughs, and not allowed to restrict rights or limit access to health insurance or job opportunities.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Job
  • Technology
  • Advance

• To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Play
  • Minds
  • Weak

• Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

  

  Red Smith
  • Baseball
  • Minds
  • Only