Andy Van Slyke Quotes

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Andy Van Slyke

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• I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Individual

• When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Stupid
  • Young
  • Silly

• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Why
  • Myself
  • Win

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• When you're in a fighter jet and there's a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, it's light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • World
  • Light
  • Dark

• If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.

  

  Valerie June
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inside

• Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Sad

• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Said
  • Weakness

• Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for 'Pop' magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Writing
  • Desire
  • Learning

• For fifteen years, I was a teacher of youth. They were years out of the fullness and bloom of my younger manhood. They were years mingled of half breathless work, of anxious self-questionings, of planning and replanning, of disillusion, or mounting wonder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Work
  • Wonder
  • Teacher

• I don't care what other people are doing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Care
  • Doing

• A feminist man is a bit like a vegetarian: it's the humanitarian principle he's defending, I suppose.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Man
  • Like
  • Feminist

• Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Single
  • Dumb

• Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? -That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

  

  Arthur Guiterman

• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • People
  • Great
  • History

• I could never understand how to build a computer, but the best I could hope for is to understand the people that do.

  

  Kerry Bishe
  • People
  • Hope

• I don't know anybody who walks through life all the time in the doldrums, constantly serious and morose. But that's become what we generalize as drama.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Serious

• When people ask for book recommendations, I say this: Do some math. If you read one book every week for the rest of your life, and if you're lucky enough to live for 50 more years, you're only going to get to 2,600 books.

  

  Anthony Doerr
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

  

  Chuck Liddell
  • College
  • Serious
  • Wrestling

• There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.

  

  David Galenson
  • People
  • Different
  • Artist

• Seven years ago, who would have dared forecast such a transformation of Britain. This didn't come about because of consensus. It happened because we said: this we believe, this we will do. It's called leadership.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • Leadership
  • Transformation

• I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Up
  • English
  • Literature

• Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

  

  Andy Van Slyke