"Bert Blyleven certainly was a starting pitcher that had tremendous success in the big leagues. Jimmy Rice, this guy if you had to face him, I tell you what he'd get your attention cause he was a great... great player. I think those guys deserve some recognition, but it didn't happen for them. For whatever reason, I really can't answer that."

“To demarcate [words in way that changes the meaning] is simply to speak a different language than everyone else. And I do not accept semantic games like that. [...] We need to use words as they are actually used and understood. We can correct errors and inconsistencies and make distinctions. But we can't try to foist an alien language on people.”

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work,”

Source : "Terminally Ill 'Simpsons' Co-Creator Vows to Give Away Fortune". Interview with Gary Baum, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 25, 2013.

“I don't have to beat you. I don't have to beat you, motherfucker. I just have to keep you here... until Jean shows up.”

Source : Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.487, Spectra

“I try not to think about the drums themselves. If I do, I'll end up hitting myself in the head with a drumstick, or sustaining some weird injury.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.

“It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.”

Source : Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Philosophy of Physical Science: Tarner Lectures (1938)”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

“Scientific theory and its application to the growing needs of mankind advance hand in hand.”

Source : Cargill Gilston Knott (2015). “Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

“The blessings of stupas are such that they benefit all beings, regardless of their connection and motivation. If one participates in a stupa's construction and ritual activities, or honors the completed stupa with an altruistic resolve to benefit all beings, then the blessings are such that the Buddha himself could not describe them.”