"Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!"

-- Red Buttons

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“I plot as I go. Many novelists write an outline that has almost as many pages as their ultimate book. Others knock out a brief synopsis... Do what is comfortable. If you have to plot out every move your characters make, so be it. Just make sure there is a plausible purpose behind their machinations. A good reader can smell a phony plot a block away.”
“Belts are immaterial. What's material to me is who have you fought, how many rounds have you fought, how many fights have you fought.”
“Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.”
“Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.”

Source : Source: www.theskanner.com
“The biggest potential and actual crises of the 21st century all have a strong, long, slow aspect with a significant lag between cause and effect. We have to train ourselves to be thinking in terms of longer-term results.”

Source : "SXSW: Futurist Jamais Cascio Sees GOP Filters, Alt Energy". Interview with Lewis Wallace, www.wired.com. March 10, 2008.
“This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his idiosyncrasy a strange fund of enthusiasm, a quality which ought never to be possessed by an Archbishop of Canterbury, or a Prime Minister of England. The Bishop of London sympathies with everything that is earnest; but what is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.”
“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.”

Source : Source: edition.cnn.com
“If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and error, the world is our oyster!”

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