Backstops For Baseball Quotes & Sayings

It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work. — Mary McDonnell

A Royal Commission is a broody hen sitting on a china egg. — Michael Foot

Care that is once enter'd into the breast
Will have the whole possession ere it rest. — Samuel Johnson

Before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book. — Jean Rhys

All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism — Bruno Bettelheim

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me. — Dan Aykroyd

She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. — Sarah Dessen

The jelly-bean eating thug says that national defense is important. But national defense starts at home. — Dick Gregory

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow. — Zachary Quinto

The Overtakelessness of Those
Who have accomplished Death -
Majestic is to me beyond
The majesties of Earth -
The Soul her "Not at Home"
Inscribes upon the Flesh -
And takes a fine aerial gait
Beyond the Writ of Touch. — Emily Dickinson

It's a TV show. Only the emotional damage is real. — Steven Moffat

This chapter provides a comprehensive definition of life scripts as a complex set of unconscious relational patterns based on physiological survival reactions, implicit experiential conclusions, explicit decisions, and/or self-regulating introjections, made under stress, at any developmental age, that inhibit spontaneity and limit flexibility in problem-solving, health maintenance and in relationship with people. — Richard G. Erskine

Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor. — Marcel Proust

How much detention did you get?
Two weeks. One per arsehole. — Stephanie Perkins

Oh, now, Ria, you malign me. I'm as honest as a rose garden is beautiful."
"And as full of dung," replied Sophronia without missing a beat. — Gail Carriger