Ted Lyons famous quotes

I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
-- Ted Lyons

#Curves #Law #Vocabulary

One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
-- Ted Lyons

#Tired #Home #Two

I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.
-- Ted Lyons

#League #Stuff #Come Up

When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.

You're gonna get thrown curve balls left and right, and that's just the way it goes.

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we have the range of emotion to fully feel what someone else is feeling. I don't think any of us can sit in judgment of another human being. We're incomplete creatures, barely scraping by. Is it possible--from the perspective of this quickly spinning Earth and our speedy journey from crib to coffin--to know the difference between right, wrong, good, and evil? I don't know if it's even useful to try.

There is a satisfactory boniness about grammar which the flesh of sheer vocabulary requires before it can become a vertebrate and walk the earth.

Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.