Aseball Quotes

#1. [B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?

Thomas Boswell

#2. Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Shannon Hale

#3. I love my family, I'll do anything for them.

Toni Braxton

#4. I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

Julien Benda

#5. You dirty, double-crossing rat.

James Cagney

#6. Writers are only rarely likable.

Joan Didion

#7. Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

George Steinbrenner

#8. It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.

Charles Lindbergh

#9. There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

Dinesh D'Souza

#10. I held you in the square
And felt the evening
Re-order itself around
Your smile.

Ben Okri

#11. Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Jason Reitman

#12. But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it.

Hilary Mantel

#13. Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense. (on Richard Burton)

Elizabeth Taylor