Billy Martin Yankees Quotes & Sayings

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. — Christopher Hitchens

That brings me to the real reason for the title: Where does that which happens during reading a book take place? ( ... ) Does not every reader, whether he wants it or not, bring ( ... ) his own experiences and thoughts into the process of reading? ( ... ) Is not every book a mirror in which the reader is reflected, whether he knows it or not? And is not every reader a mirror in which the book is reflected? — Michael Ende

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But don't wobble. — Yunmen Wenyan

He travels best that knows when to return. — Thomas Middleton

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. — Bob Lemon

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey

I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example. — Lynsey Addario

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level. — Jesse L. Martin

If, in Him all things hold together, why would anyone ever want to be apart from Him? — Van Harden

I did not feel a bit sorry for my father. He seemed to me to be the victim of his own foolish sentimentality. The — H.G.Wells

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. — Jan Morris

I stared at him. 'You're scared of bunnies?' 'Blah-hah-hah! They're big bullies. Always stealing celery from defenceless satyrs!' Thalia coughed. 'What?' Grover demanded. 'We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later,' I said. 'Here they come.' The — Rick Riordan