"Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere."

-- Billy Beane

#Able Quotes #Hats Quotes #Mark Quotes

“I despise this weakness in myself--this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action...”

Source : Stef Penney (2008). “The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster
“I have a few things that I have written over the years that haven't been made, but I sort of feel like there was a good reason why they were not made. So I am not anxious to go back and fix them. I don't have something in the desk drawer that I think, "The time is right now. If I just do this, it'll be great." It is kind of out of sight and out of mind. I am thinking ahead rather than back.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.”

Source : Thomas Rundall, William Adams (1850). “Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society”
“It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.”

Source : Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.37, Paradise Publishing
“Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator.”

Source : William Buckland (2003). “The Evolution Debate, 1813-1870: Geology and Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.7, Psychology Press
“All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.”
“I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.”
“Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.”

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