Richie Ashburn Quotes

#1. Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

Franz Grillparzer

#2. To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.

Richie Ashburn

#3. The moral qualities are more apt to grow when a human being is useful, and they increase in the woman who helps to support the family rather than in the one who gives herself to idleness and fashionable frivolities.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#4. I'm inspired by lines, by shapes, when I see a dress on a person, when I see a beauty in a face, whether it's a man from an ancient culture or a beautiful young model. So what inspires me? Life inspires me.

Russell James

#5. If that isn't typical male stupidity! If something doesn't work, kick it or swear at it!

Nora Roberts

#6. I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

Richie Ashburn

#7. It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball.

Richie Ashburn

#8. My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

Jacqueline De Ribes

#9. Everything that comes together falls apart. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.

John Green

#10. Women have problem areas in a way that men don't. We have big hips and muffin tops. Men just have the thing where they create wars and wreak havoc all over the globe.

Jessi Klein

#11. I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then.

Richie Ashburn

#12. While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

Leonard Maltin

#13. A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers.

Richie Ashburn

#14. To compromise, Only do so if you want to agree with the request.

Auliq Ice

#15. Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'

Roberto Cavalli

#16. The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it.

Richie Ashburn

#17. I don't like gross monetary inequities. I firmly believe that the wrong people and the wrong professions are being rewarded, and rewarded absurdly, and that the hardest work the obscenely rich do is ensuring that they preserve their privileges, status symbols, and bloated bank accounts.

Michael Dirda

#18. Oh my God, I'm not letting you out of this bed until you are thoroughly debouched. Incest has never looked so fucking good before.

Annie George

#19. A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Helen Rowland

#20. I fucking love you

Jamie McGuire

#21. The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Ken Kesey