Bob Melvin Quotes
We're kind of in that difficult line, where you still feel like you're in it. You still go out there and try to win every game, yet you have to look periodically at these other guys. It's not a real comfortable place to be, yet that's where we are and guys are going to get some days off from time to time.
Quotes to Explore
-
People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
-
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
-
Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
-
My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
-
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
-
I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
-
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
-
I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
-
Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
-
I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it.
-
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
-
I play the guitar when I want to relax. But to play the guitar, you cut the nails. So one day, I'll cut the nails off.
-
Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
-
My wife will automatically quote and compare the price of diesel at every petrol station we drive by, like she's got oil-based Tourette's.
-
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
-
Colour can raise the dead.
-
America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
-
Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
-
I don't ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.
-
I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.
-
Everyone will get opportunities in a game to make a big play
-
Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
-
Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
-
We're kind of in that difficult line, where you still feel like you're in it. You still go out there and try to win every game, yet you have to look periodically at these other guys. It's not a real comfortable place to be, yet that's where we are and guys are going to get some days off from time to time.
