Bob Melvin Quotes

When we got up there in big situations, ... we weren't very good.

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

  

  Abe Lemons
  • School
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Fun

• No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • High
  • Going
  • Rises

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Colors
  • Icon

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

  

  Om Puri
  • Me
  • Desire
  • Wife

• The fans treated me royally.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Treated

• David Lynch helped me be cool.

  

  Dana Ashbrook
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Helped

• No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Long
  • Man
  • Woman

• I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Done
  • Space
  • Three

• In this hectic life, we have no time to take care of ourselves, hence massage is needed for rejuvenation and stress reduction. A lot of people are looking for quick fixes: like, they are taking medications, and they are doing other things which are not healthy. But massage is very holistic and natural.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I worked hard to be accepted by the fashion community in ways beyond my physical appearance. In no time, though, I found myself surrendering to the industry's approval process. I felt like I needed validation from everyone. As a result, I lost sight of myself and what it meant to be happy, what it meant to be successful.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Community

• Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Identity

• If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • People
  • Spring
  • Greek

• I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

  

  Deborah Harkness
  • Good
  • Work
  • Magic

• ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is actually exciting to me, just because then you can have a choice in what you do. I would like to be at a point where I'm not asking for parts anymore, and I'm actually just choosing between a part that I want to do.

  

  Emily Meade
  • Famous

• I get up early, go to bed late, and sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. And I pray a lot.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up

• And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Nature

• When we got up there in big situations, ... we weren't very good.

  

  Bob Melvin
  • Good
  • Situations