Baseball Themed Quotes & Sayings

You move your life across the country and make a commitment to a place, and to a genre, and then you realize that neither the place nor the genre might be what you thought they were going to be, or that the world you thought you were going to find in school doesn't actually exist. — John D'Agata

I have dyslexia, and I never did learn to read music, and I even had a problem in reading because everything was turned upside down, so I just had to draw from the lyrics and the voice that I would hear in my mind. — Andrae Crouch

Gratification kills desire. And constant gratification kills it permanently — Norah Vincent

If this is the 'Green Hell' of the Amazon, then hell is where I belong," said Maia. — Eva Ibbotson

Nil desperandum,
Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. — Samuel Adams

One day, in a grocery store, I swept clean a shelf of microbrew beer for my husband and three giant jars of mustard, leaving none for future shoppers. It was victory tinged with guilt. What would the next expat shopper think, when looking for beer or mustard? I couldn't afford to think about them. Every man for himself, in modern China! — Deborah Fallows

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interacting with the rest of the world. — Samantha Shannon