Ashburn Quotes & Sayings

To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better. — Richie Ashburn

At a clattering noise, Shawn looked up and saw that his captain was roaming and had backed up against a trash bin. Ashburn was easy to spot, with his shock of wavy gray hair and frequent careless flailing. His assistant, a silent and harried woman, scurried after him. She kept her hands out, ready for her boss's next inevitable disaster. — Nina Post

The Srimad-Bhagavatam states that any bona fide preacher of God consciousness must have the qualities of titiksa (tolerance) and karuna (compassion). In the character of Lord Jesus Christ we find both these qualities. — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

At one store, Gansey had started to pay for Blue's potato chips and she'd snatched them away. "I don't want you to buy me food!" Blue said. "If you pay for it, then it's like I'm ... be
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" "Beholden to me?" Gansey suggested pleasantly. "Don't put words into my mouth." "It was your word." "You assumed it was my word. You can't just go around assuming." "But that is what you meant, isn't it?" She scowled. "I'm done with this conversation. — Maggie Stiefvater

The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls. — Victor Hugo

Nameless miseries of the numberless mortals — Herman Melville

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. — Richie Ashburn

Ashburn gestured dramatically. "Look, I can't explain the psychology behind it. All I know is, it's more satisfying to get the jelly beans with an office supply order. They just taste better when they arrive in the same box as four hundred legal pads. — Nina Post

Okay, is there something unusual on my face?" "Just the usual," he says to his wine glass. "Eyes, mouth, nose, confusion. — Eva Morgan

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist ... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience. — Sid Grossman

A good lead-off hitter is a pain in the ass to pitchers. — Richie Ashburn

Hello?" Isabelle called from the other side. "Simon, is your diva moment over? I need to talk to Jace. — Cassandra Clare

Or maybe, and I like to hope it was this one, because the truth is more intricate and less attainable than I used to understand, a bright illusive place reached by twisting back roads as often as by straight avenues, and this was the closest I could come. — Tana French

After fifteen years of facing them (pitchers) you don't really get over them. They're devious. They're the only players in the game allowed to cheat. They throw illegal pitches and they sneak foreign substances on the ball. They can inflict pain whenever they wish. And, they're the only ones on the diamond who have high ground. That's symbolic. You know what they tell you in a war - 'take the high ground first.' — Richie Ashburn

When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic. — Kristen Ashburn

Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong! — Chuck Smith

I am the Atma abiding in the heart of all beings. I am also the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings. — Anonymous

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder — Stephenie Meyer

Your Imagination is YOU yourself, and the world as your Imagination sees it is the real world. — Neville Goddard

I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is how one-hundred and fifty plus people have changed their minds about me since I became eligible, because I haven't had a base hit since then. — Richie Ashburn

Sometimes it was funny - the passion he put into each new phase. — Jonathan Kellerman

The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse or chase broads. I don't see how he can make it. — Richie Ashburn

It looked like a ballpark. It smelled like a ballpark. It had a feeling and a heartbeat, a personality that was all baseball. — Richie Ashburn

What I loved with Billie Holiday is she had a good way of parlaying the sorrow with a positive musical twist. — Rebecca Ferguson