"I'll be satisfied with what I've got at the end of the season, ... If I can play every day, the numbers will come."

-- Jonny Gomes

#Play Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that, if people could see just how many of us there are, some in very important places, the negative stereotype would vanish overnight. ...It is far more realistic to suppose that, if the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.”
“When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important”
“How few people will realize how much detail had to be gone into before Bakelite was a commercial success.”
“I think that it's always appropriate for Americans and for American foreign policy to make clear why we feel that self-government is most compatible with peace, the well-being of people, and human dignity”
“She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.”
“I have a hard time really claiming my place as a songwriter or as doing anything of import really because I feel like I'm tooting my own horn in a way.”
“Too much self-regard has never struck me as dignified: trying to twist over my shoulder to view my own behind.”
“The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.”

Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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