Upshaw Quotes

#1. I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

Pat Gillick

#2. Upshaw - Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis's friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized," as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two worlds. He chose to pose in the clothes of his ancestors.

Timothy Egan

#3. Minna sometimes imagined Dr. Upshaw having sex with her husband, lying there almost motionless, fat sticky thighs sagging on the bed, saying, "I think you're onto something, David," in her low, encouraging voice.

Lauren Oliver

#4. I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels.

Sydney Wayser

#5. What are people actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them?

Martha C. Nussbaum

#6. You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

Agnes Martin

#7. Every endeavor of importance in life, whether it is creative, athletic, interpersonal, or academic, brings with it a measure of discomfort,

Patrick Lencioni

#8. The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Charles A. Reich

#9. My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

Bill Johnson