"The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often."

-- Rogers Hornsby

#Running Quotes #Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“President Obama hosted a state dinner for British Prime Minister David Cameron. The president and the British are getting along a lot better lately. They love to compare notes on ways the Tea Party's always trying to overthrow their rule in America.”
“Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.”

Source : "Not Waving but Drowning" l. 11 (1957)
“I do everything by hand... Even if I'm doing really big letters and I spend a lot of time going over the line and over the line and trying to make it straight, I'll never be able to make it straight. From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.”
“Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.”
“Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.”
“Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.”
“Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!”
“Combating climate change requires collaboration with many levels of government.”

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