Quotes About Doubleday

#1. Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

#2. The only thing Abner Doubleday ever started was the Civil War.

Branch Rickey

#3. Doubleday is used to my talking about manners because I am, after all, known for that, and that's my persona.

Letitia Baldrige

#4. Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick.

Jim Bouton

#5. There is no pleasure in this world like the company of friends," said the Mouse, "and no pain like losing them.

Simon R. Doubleday

#6. What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, a stab, a shot: it's over and done, but I'm carrying my corruption around with me. It's the coating of my stomach.' He threw her wrists aside like seeds towards the stony floor. 'Never pretend I haven't shown my love.

Graham Greene

#7. Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

Billy Graham

#8. They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.

John Grisham

#9. Reality cannot be captured by language - not even the language of mathematics - since all language, by its very nature, is man-made, self-referent ambiguity.

Dee Hock

#10. In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

Portia Doubleday

#11. Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.

Joseph Roth

#12. I don't understand what's happening in 'Mr. Robot' all the time, and I'm really actually intimated for the second season. I'll have to rewatch the first season, I think.

Portia Doubleday

#13. I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?

Portia Doubleday

#14. I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.

Portia Doubleday

#15. The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

Portia Doubleday

#16. Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

John Peers

#17. The business breeds such a deep insecurity. It's the nature of the beast, and there is nothing you can do to get away from that.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#18. I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.

Portia Doubleday

#19. My sister basically showed me how to be a person for many years of my life. I just didn't really fit anywhere, and my sister was always really comfortable in who she was.

Portia Doubleday

#20. but the force of traditions, as in all crumbling empires, grows proportionately with the explicit revelation, in the machinery of government and commerce alike, of the preponderant action of all principles of inertia...

Julien Gracq

#21. Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#22. Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

Josh Tickell

#23. I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.

Portia Doubleday

#24. I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.

Portia Doubleday

#25. Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#26. Some dancers dream about successful careers ... and some dancers wake up and do the hard work that's necessary to achieve them.

Grover Dale

#27. I played soccer for 12 years on three different teams at a time.

Portia Doubleday

#28. My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm very grateful for, because if I do make something of my career I will be able to say it wasn't because I was a Chaplin.

Oona Chaplin

#29. If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.

Portia Doubleday

#30. I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.

Kaitlin Doubleday

#31. What was independence but a word? What did any form of government matter? Freedom: to do what?

Patrick O'Brian