Leo Durocher Quotes

What are we out at the park for, except to win?

Leo Durocher

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• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Children
  • Black
  • Past

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• I am a contrarian.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Contrarian

• I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • Heart
  • Sometimes
  • Head

• Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.

  

  Edgar Bergen
  • Love
  • Church
  • Movies

• I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Law
  • Laugh
  • Cut

• Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Help
  • Deep
  • Blues

• The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Mind
  • May

• When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Done
  • Technology

• When desire dies, fear is born.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Born

• I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

  

  Imelda May
  • Work
  • King
  • Last

• If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Life
  • Time
  • Desire

• She committed suicide...'Why?''She often told me, she was frightened of getting old.'

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Old
  • Suicide
  • Frightened

• Εἴπερ κακὸν φέροι τις, αἰσχύνης ἄτερἔστω· μόνον γὰρ κέρδος ἐν τεθνηκόσι·κακῶν δὲ κᾀσχρῶν οὔτιν᾽ εὐκλείαν ἐρεῖς.

  

  Aeschylus

• His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth, they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadn't drunk.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Men
  • Truth
  • Drunk

• Adults under threat feel like children.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Children

• In high school and college, I'd set a bunch of goals for myself. I wanted to be the lead effects supervisor on one of these really big, innovative visual effects productions, something on the scale of a 'Star Wars' movie. And I wanted to work on a project that wins the Academy Award for best visual effects.

  

  John Knoll
  • Work
  • School
  • Movie

• I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand people read, or just privileged people read. I want to write a book whose emotional truth people can understand. For me, that's what it's about.

  

  Ann Hood
  • People
  • Book
  • Truth

• The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

  

  Alfred Einstein
  • Ignorance
  • More
  • Dangerous

• What are we out at the park for, except to win?

  

  Leo Durocher