A Bart Giamatti Quotes & Sayings

I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright. — Robert Morse

Don't just hit a home run. Knock it out of the park. — A.D. Posey

See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect. — John Of The Cross

I train for about an hour five days a week and feel I'm in the best shape I've ever been. I can eat what I want and that includes scoffing half a big bar of Cadbury's a day. — Peter Andre

As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places — Bart Giamatti

You must want to know the truth more than you want to feel secure in order to fully awaken to the fact that you are nothing but Awakeness itself. — Adyashanti

Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders. — Marilyn Vos Savant

The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, as it were, paved with anxiety. — Terry Pratchett

Englishmen do like to get in a dress, any excuse. — Noel Fielding

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject. — Jane Austen

Killing an animals oneself is more often then not a way to forget the problem while pretending to remember. This is perhaps more harmful than ignorance. It is always possible to wake someone from sleep, but there is no amount of noise that will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep.
pg. 102. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem. — Rand Paul

Well, for Blow I had to age from 20 to 60, starting out in shape and then later putting on fat pads. — Ray Liotta

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good. — Pete Rose

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park. — David Halberstam