"Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it."

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Source : Russell Baker (1965). “All Things Considered”

Russell Baker

#Crush Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“Our men and women in uniform deserve the best intelligence possible to help them protect America.”
“Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,”

Source : "Tracy Morgan emotional in first interview since crash: 'Pain will always be there'" by Kyung Kim, www.today.com. June 1, 2015.
“I think recent revelations about who's in what bed speak to the problems with what happened in the Gulf.”
“Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.”
“I was very impressed with Hanson's performance. I thought that little drummer was a kick-ass drummer, and uh, that they sang great, I mean I didn't know either, y'know, that these little boys, y'know, I was very impressed. I think they'll probably be around in 20 years writing good songs, and being a great band.”
“Obviously, television is a writer's medium, so you get a lot more power and authority. With a film, the discipline is having a beginning, middle and end, and having it work in a specific space of time.”
“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”
“I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.”

Source : "New Again: Fiona Apple". Interview with Colleen Kelsey and Tracey Pepper, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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