"There are umpires, and there are those who hold the title."

-- Al Barlick

#Umpires Quotes #Titles Quotes

“What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.”
“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”
“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.”

Source : Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.149, Basic Books
“I know that I've definitely found what I should be doing with my life. In my life, as far as my career goes, I always felt, as an actor, that it was something that would just be a temporary thing that would get me to what I wanted to do next. That's what my acting did. I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.”
“And the simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.”
“I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.”
“Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves chose the ideal over the real in their geometry and demonstrated very well that far more could be achieved by consideration of abstract line and form than by a study of the real lines and forms of the world; the greater understanding achieved through abstraction could be applied most usefully to the very reality that was ignored in the process of gaining knowledge.”

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