Joseph Bottum Quotes & Sayings

I wish I trusted people more," Jeter has said. "But when I meet someone, the first thing is, 'What does this person want?' And I put up a defense mechanism." For that matter, he would add, "I've always been that way," and his first seasons as a Yankee — Joseph Bottum

Cities on the ocean have a choice whether to turn their faces or their backs to the water, lining the shore either with pretty hotels and rich homes or dim warehouses, narrow streets, and greasy piers. All prairie towns turn away from the prairie, however. The huddled houses form a storm-battened island in the midst of endless space. — Joseph Bottum

A fierce hatred of embarrassment ruled a surprising amount of the life of Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame basketball center. — Joseph Bottum

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. — Joseph Bottum

Besides, he was also a hell of a ballplayer. THE END — Joseph Bottum

(Dune's Frank) Herbert made religion the inescapable instrument of cultural change. — Joseph Bottum

It's hard to renounce heroes unless you have one to start with. — Joseph Bottum

It might stand as the surest marker of the difference between childhood and age: A month was once forever, and now it's just a month. Or less. One — Joseph Bottum

Anything that keeps old words in circulation is to be treasured, the French revolution be damned. — Joseph Bottum

And then there were books, and more books, and yet more books - until everything we had wanted Christmas to be seemed present in the dead of those cold winters. — Joseph Bottum