Puckett Quotes

#1. Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. -- character Billy Clyde Puckett in Semi-Tough

Dan Jenkins

#2. He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Jim Leyland

#3. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

Bud Selig

#4. Puckett's Stacks was not the sort of bookshop one happened upon; it was the sort of bookshop for which one looked deliberately.

C. Robert Cargill

#5. I forced myself to open my eyes. I was a Puckett, damn it. And Pucketts didn't lose our nerve. We schemed, we interjected, we occasionally drank too much and told someone what we really thought of them at a Christmas party, but we never lost our nerve.

Molly Harper

#6. A writer is a person who writes.

Actually, it was John Braine's quote in his book HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL. But I use it all the time

Andrew Puckett

#7. But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

John Buchanan Robinson

#8. All that happened before is part of the process that brought you to now. And that is all. Just a step along the way.

Stevie Puckett

#9. Tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

Kirby Puckett

#10. Because one of these days, someone's going to come along, someone who deserves your time and attention, someone who might really care about you, and you're going to be too far gone to even see what's right in front of your face. You're going to miss out on true love, Mandy.

Tracie Puckett

#11. You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.

Nicholas Stern

#12. All novelists know that crisis reveals character.

Salman Rushdie

#13. No matter how angry I was, no matter how much I wanted to hate him, I was still irrevocably drawn to Gabriel Raddick and every moment we'd shared together.

Tracie Puckett

#14. I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

Kirby Puckett

#15. If you want things to change, then you have to change them.

Tracie Puckett

#16. and squeezed in a few minutes for minimal make-up,

Tracie Puckett

#17. There are many ways your intuition can get a message to you. You will start to pick them up once you learn to quiet the mental chatter.

Stevie Puckett

#18. Tell Ray to put the eyeliner, the lipstick and the high heels away. I'm not saying he's a cross-dresser, that's just what I heard.

Shannon Sharpe

#19. Stifling your emotions is not the way. Ignoring your emotions is not the way. Your emotions carry important messages for you. Take the time to receive the meaning.

Stevie Puckett

#20. I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Bow Wow

#21. Tomorrow isn't promised to any of us.

Kirby Puckett

#22. I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.

Milla Jovovich

#23. Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Kirby Puckett

#24. I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

Kirby Puckett

#25. Personal development is an ever-evolving process of making more and better distinctions about who you are and what you want.

Stevie Puckett

#26. For many years, the work advanced but slowly. One denomination after another embarked in the undertaking; and now, American missionaries are seen in almost every land and every clime.

Adoniram Judson

#27. I may be your strength, Amanda Parker, but you are my weakness.

Tracie Puckett

#28. Yes, Siri. A dedicated socialist plunges headfirst into the troubled waters without testing the depth." "Isn't he likely to bump his head on the bottom?" Siri asked.

Colin Cotterill

#29. Always be looking for what you can appreciate in the moment.

Stevie Puckett