"The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything."

-- Carl Yastrzemski

#Relief Quotes #Three Quotes #Uptight Quotes

“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”

Source : "The Marriage Plot". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, www.theguardian.com. 2011.
“It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.”
“England's always expecting. No wonder they call her the Mother Country”
“Thereâ€™s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?”
“It seems incredible that the trustees of typically American fortune-created foundations should have permitted them to be used to finance ideas and practices incompatible with the fundamental concepts of our Constitution. Yet there seems evidence that this may have occurred.”

Source : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, Norman Dodd (1954). “A report from Norman Dodd, director of research, covering his direction of the staff of the Special Committee of the House of Representatives to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations for the six months' period, November 1, 1953-April 30, 1954”
“For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft ***** became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.”
“I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship.”

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