Tied Game Quotes

#1. Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why should it be life's business to give us warm comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary purpose could nostalgia serve?

Julian Barnes

#2. READ! Books can be as delicious as hot-fudge sundaes, as funny as clowns, as exciting as a baseball game that's tied in the 9th inning, and as beautiful as the best sunset you ever saw.

Judith Viorst

#3. He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.

Michael Lewis

#4. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.

Ruben Studdard

#5. If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.

David Ignatius

#6. a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And

Patrick Lencioni

#7. I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

Natalie Imbruglia

#8. So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes.

David Gower

#9. At first, the new owner pretends he never looked at the living room floor.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Home is the place where they have to take you in

Diana Gabaldon

#11. My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?

Emo Philips

#12. No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees,
sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air,
dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding,
our animal passion rooted in the city.

Adrienne Rich

#13. You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

Willie Stargell

#14. Baseball is a tongue-tied kid from Georgia growing up to be an announcer and praising the Lord for showing him the way to Cooperstown. This is a game for America. Still a game for America, this baseball!

Ernie Harwell

#15. Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

Anne Rice

#16. Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Bear Bryant

#17. But the only game she wanted to play was Kidnapper, where she tied me up and left me in my own tree house for about twelve hours, until Dad climbed up and got me down. Why hadn't I at least called for help? I had. But no one had heard me. Probably because of the gag in my mouth.

Douglas Rees