Adulatory Quotes

#1. By 1968, I had lived 10 years in Michigan. Gradually, I had come to love watching Detroit's baseball club in its small, beautiful, antiquated Tiger Stadium - a baseball park as fine as Fenway Park or Wrigley Field, though it never got the adulatory press.

Donald Hall

#2. The end of every game is an anti-climax. What you thought you would feel you don't feel, what you thought was so important isn't any more. It's the game that's exciting.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.

Horace Greeley

#4. Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you.

Lauren Mayberry

#5. Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:
Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things.

Jim George

#6. I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#7. I don't presume to describe myself as a creator anymore, but I certainly love the process, and I hope I can do a lot of great things for the talent who are in and around DC.

Diane Nelson

#8. Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

Ahmed Ben Bella

#9. My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

Louis C.K.

#10. To build a twenty-first-century economy, America must revive a nineteenth-century habit
investing in the common, national economic resources that enable every person and every firm to create wealth and value.

William J. Clinton

#11. Miss Howard: Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at once.

Agatha Christie

#12. Don Miller says we're called to hold our hands against the wounds of a broken world, to stop the bleeding. i agree so greatly.

Jamie Tworkowski

#13. I usually say I left puberty at 58.

Ingmar Bergman