Ump Sayings

#1. First base was a far richer social opportunity. First base made catching feeling like a bad dinner party - what with the ump hanging on your shoulder and all the fans and cameras staring at you. At first base you could really talk.

Michael Lewis

#2. One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.

Satchel Paige

#3. Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

Amos Otis

#4. In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

Honus Wagner

#5. There was something special about watching a manager and umpire both convinced they were totally right, but knowing that one had to be wrong. As an ump, those moments made my job fun, and getting 'nose-to-nose' was part of my job description.

Doug Harvey

#6. You put the emphasis on life at the end

Colleen Hoover

#7. No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

Brendon Burchard

#8. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.

Harper Lee

#9. Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill:
Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age
Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage.

Alexander Pope

#10. There is no secret in the mystery of life stronger and more beautiful than that attachment which converts the silence of a virgin's spirit into a perpetual awareness that makes a person forget the past, for it kindles fiercely in the heart the sweet and overwhelming hope of the coming future.

Khalil Gibran

#11. We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning.
-Pg.242-

Cassandra Clare

#12. Facts always are sensational.

Saul Bellow

#13. To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.

Zora Neale Hurston

#14. Her voice was like loneliness. It was regret. She sang about a past you couldn't get out of and didn't want.

Brenna Yovanoff

#15. Wherever there is light, one can photograph.

Alfred Stieglitz

#16. People care about our digital revenue, not our print revenue.

Dan Rosensweig

#17. I thought you could beat, pummel, and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

Ray Bradbury

#18. This was what I liked most about my friends: just sitting around & telling stories.

John Green

#19. Met men who made me laugh, men who made me think, men who made me cum. But I never met another man who made my heart leap and had me hoping for forever. Two chances at love in one lifetime, it seemed, were the maximum any one person got. During my bitter moments, it

Anonymous

#20. If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

Patricia Velasquez