Lefty Gomez Quotes

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

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• I always put my boxing first.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Always
  • First
  • Boxing

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Kind
  • Personality
  • Find

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • People
  • Character
  • Action

• In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

  

  Irwin Rose
  • People
  • Embarrassed
  • Hobbies

• I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Acting

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  

  Jack Black
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I call myself a geriatric starlet.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Myself
  • Call
  • Starlet

• Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Important
  • Home
  • Marriage

• So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • People
  • Politics
  • Literature

• If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

  

  Aaron Allston
  • God
  • You
  • Server

• The conflation of the simple in style with the morally prescriptive in character, and the complex in style with the amoral or anarchic in character, seems to me one of the most persistently fallacious beliefs held by English students.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Character
  • Simple
  • Style

• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Artist
  • Generation
  • Shakespeare

• When we’ve agreed that something ought to be done, or not done, we get very stubborn. And when that meets up with another stubbornness, it can make a kind of war, a struggle of ideas, the only kind of war anybody ever wins.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Up
  • Done
  • War

• Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in

  

  Cole Porter
  • Country
  • Forever
  • Fence

• As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

  

  Andrew Gross
  • People
  • Family
  • Truth

• Events such as the 1991 Tailhook debacle have been seized upon and used by feminists to attack the military culture and bring about major concessions.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Culture
  • Military

• You're not changing the world at $500 million in revenue. You start making a true difference when you're doing billions in revenue.

  

  Brian Lee
  • World
  • True

• If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

  

  Lefty Gomez