Curt Gowdy Quotes

It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.

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• The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Fun
  • Reason
  • Marriage

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

  Zhu Zhu
  • Game
  • Know
  • Pool

• Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Superman
  • Nobody
  • Anyone

• The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Rock
  • Sometimes
  • Stars

• I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Growing

• I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Good
  • Work
  • Work Hard

• I don't believe in strong-arming people.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Believe
  • Strong

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Powerful
  • Imagination
  • Exercise

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Family
  • Color
  • Embarrassed

• By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Fear
  • Adversity
  • Greatest

• For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Character
  • Together

• My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Done
  • Die
  • Myself

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago.

  

  Jane Byrne
  • Life
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I went to one doctor who told me I wasn't exercising enough. I was so exhausted, I couldn't raise my arm. When this doctor called it psychosomatic, I was enraged. To think the constant sore throat and swollen glands were all in my head was infuriating.

  

  Alana Stewart

• You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

  

  Emmylou Harris
  • Life
  • Beginning

• The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • Love
  • True

• I lived in Red Hook, Brooklyn, for about 10 years, and then we moved out to Jersey City after my wife and I bought a house up in the Catskills. I miss Brooklyn, but the commute to the Catskills is about 45 minutes shorter.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Up
  • House
  • City

• It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city.

  

  Curt Gowdy
  • Good
  • Great
  • City