"They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion."

-- Johnny Bench

#Winning Quotes #Oklahoma Quotes #Games Quotes

“Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self. Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.”
“Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the water, we are destroying mother nature and that's a violent act. If we don't first and foremost come to some peaceful terms, none of us are going to be able to survive.”
“If you live for any joy on earth, you may be forsaken; but, oh, live for Jesus, and he will never forsake you!”

Source : Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”
“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.”
“I always spend too much time on getting the details right. That's the problem with computers. They make it possible to change too much of the music after it's been recorded.”

Source : Interview with Dominique Leone, pitchfork.com. September 29, 2008.
“I think I'm proudest of making my parents proud.”
“In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.”
“You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement”

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