"I've been lucky. I've met a lot of baseball people, and I've learned to value people who talk - people who talk well and in long sentences and even long paragraphs."

-- Roger Angell

#Baseball Quotes #Long Quotes #People Quotes

“The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.”
“There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.”
“We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.”
“My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.”

Source : "Why Cultural Significance Is The Best Job I Ever Had" by Nell Zink, www.buzzfeed.com. June 6, 2015.
“Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1962). “The Snake Has all the Lines”
“Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.”

Source : "Fictional character: the Lost Prince". "Marianas Trench: Ever After", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“Life's real victories must be shared.”

Source : "'He belongs to the ages': Obama, US leaders mourn Mandela's death", www.foxnews.com. December 5, 2013.
“All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.”

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