"People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change."

“Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate”

“I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.”

“There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.”

“But if we establish the working hypothesis that the UFOs are machines, we also have to assume the following: a) They are not built by human beings.. b) They are flying by means of artificial fields of gravity.. c) They produce high-tension electric charges in order to push the air out of their paths, so it does not start glowing, and strong magnetic fields to influence the ionized air at higher altitudes.”

“What happens is that the experience of writers working together and the idea of creative collaboration is so delightful, but it has been relegated to TV.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.135, Booklassic

“[We are] persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.”

“Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.”