Baharen Quotes & Sayings

One day he [Wagner] was batting against a young pitcher who had just come into the league. The catcher was a kid, too . The pitcher threw Honus a curve ball, and he swung at it and missed and fell down. Looked helpless as a robin. I was kind of surprised, but the guy sitting next to me poked me in the ribs and said, 'Watch this next one.' Those kids figured they had the old man's weakness, you see, and served him up the same dish - as he knew they would. Well, Honus hit a line drive so hard the fence in left field went back and forth for five minutes. — Burleigh Grimes

If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough. — Chieko N. Okazaki

If you sense a deep human need, then you go back to all the basic science. If there is some missing, then you try to do more basic science and applied science until you get it. So you make the system to fulfill that need, rather than starting the other way around, where you have something and wonder what to do with it. — Edwin Land

We do not need an atomic bomb. The Iranian nation is wise. It won't build two atomic bombs while you have 20,000 warheads. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We could give 'Take That' a run for their money. — Brian Harvey

Bundesbahnangestelltenwitwe (a widow of a federal railway employee), — Bill Bryson

You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone. — Dan Chaon

It was not the first time that they had seen trees, a blue sky, meadows; that they had heard the water flowing and the wind blowing in the leaves; but, no doubt, they had never admired all this, as if Nature had not existed before, or had only begun to be beautiful since the gratification of their desires. — Gustave Flaubert

Here's my struggle-here's my story. Don't feel sorry for me. Even if I had the chance, I wouldn't change a thing. — Jean Sharon Abbott

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence. — Christine Baranski

director under George H. W. Bush — Ted Bell

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. — Philip Sidney

Being at boarding school in the pre-internet era, especially a boarding school tucked away in the Oxfordshire countryside, was like being in a cocoon. You had your own life; world events happened elsewhere. — James Lovegrove

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown. — Charli XCX

There ... remains a huge following [of Ayn Rand's philosophy] of those who ignore the indiscretions, infidelities, and moral inconsistencies of the founder and focus instead on the positive aspects of her philosophy. There is much in it to admire, if you do not have to accept the whole package ... Criticism of the founder or followers of a philosophy does not, by itself, constitute a negation of any part of the philosophy ... Criticism of part of a philosophy does not gainsay the whole. — Michael Shermer