"Taking the best left-handed pitcher in baseball and converting him into a right fielder is one of the dumbest things I ever heard."

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Tris Speaker

#Baseball Quotes #Pitcher Quotes #Converting Quotes

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.”
“Trees are, after all, our largest and oldest living things. They are Australia's natural, national treasures - the true Elders of our vast continent.”

Source : Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.14, The Miegunyah Press
“When girls in Canada dream about becoming members of parliament, they have a pretty good expectation that parliament is going to be around for them when they graduate. There is no such expectation in Afghanistan. It's all still hope and wanting it but not really sure if it's going to be around.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net
“I certainly was surprised to be named Poet Laureate of this far-out city on the left side of the world, and I gratefully accept, for as I told the Mayor, "How could I refuse?" I'd rather be Poet Laureate of San Francisco than anywhere because this city has always been a poetic center, a frontier for free poetic life, with perhaps more poets and more poetry readers than any city in the world.”
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”
“Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.”
“Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”
“I believe that I am some sort of fiction writer and I'm using myself in my work because I'm the person I'm most convenient to use!”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com

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