Vin Scully Quotes

And, (relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley) walked (pinch-hitter Mike Davis) … and look who's comin' up!

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• I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • School
  • Me
  • Wanted

• Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • Up
  • God
  • Mess

• Whenever I see a tree that is climbable, it must be climbed. Sometimes when I'm on a run, I'll just run up a tree, jump on a branch and swing off. My favorite tree, in Saratoga, gets me a good 75 feet up.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Up
  • Good
  • Tree

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• I have met hundreds of young people doing just what George Romney did: using a hand up in tough times to become part of the American Dream.

  

  R. T. Rybak
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Power
  • Simple

• I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Want
  • Freedom

• I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Love
  • Think

• I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

  

  Sally Field
  • Up
  • Time
  • Drama

• I pick up my pen. It flows. A building appears. There it is. There is nothing more to say.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Building

• I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Music
  • Mother
  • Me

• Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Men
  • History

• Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Up
  • Done
  • Future

• Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Up
  • New
  • Something

• Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Grass

• When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Family
  • City

• When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

  

  Gail Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • America

• Children are living beings - more living than grown-up people who have built shells of habit around themselves. Therefore it is absolutely necessary for their mental health and development that they should not have mere schools for their lessons, but a world whose guiding spirit is personal love.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • You
  • Dog
  • Kindness

• I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Air

• When you think of all the things that have happened, since that problem with computers in 2000 and everybody was afraid and they were buying water, imagine what Millennium would do with all the things that are going on in the world right now. It has the capacity to be a movie. But, anyway, I loved doing it. It changed my life because the guy that I was playing was so much more educated and smarter than I was, so I had to live up to it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but the puzzle that many struggled with over the decades is, what happens to the information that an object contains when it falls into a black hole. Is it simply lost?

  

  Brian Greene
  • Black
  • Lost

• And, (relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley) walked (pinch-hitter Mike Davis) … and look who's comin' up!

  

  Vin Scully
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