Jack Brickhouse Quotes

#1. Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Anna Deavere Smith

#2. There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Richard Pryor

#3. Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?

Malia Ann Haberman

#4. I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

Paul Conrad

#5. My grandpa always tells me that 45-minute lunches are key because an army marches on its stomach.

Gia Coppola

#6. I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular ... but now I've learned to love them.

Vanessa Hudgens

#7. I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

Jack Brickhouse

#8. If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

Diana Vreeland

#9. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.

Jack Brickhouse

#10. There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times.

Jack Brickhouse

#11. I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Jack Brickhouse

#12. Any team can have a bad century.

Jack Brickhouse

#13. I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country.

Jack Brickhouse

#14. This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.

Ellen Gallagher

#15. I won't always say the right thing, I won't always make you smile, I won't always make you happy ... but I will always try, and i will always be here for you ... waiting for you to open your eyes and realize how much I love you.

Zane

#16. If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

Rick Warren

#17. I love writing. I love getting lost in creative projects when I'm going through a tough transition in life. I always keep in mind that it's not the first time something painful has happened, and just like I got through other troubles, the one at hand will pass as well.

Melanie Iglesias