Giamatti Bart Quotes & Sayings

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars. — Peta Wilson

As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places — Bart Giamatti

We're on a tight leash. We gotta do things by the book so no shooting yourself or trying to blow me up this time."
"I thought we agreed that we weren't gonna talk about that anymore. — S.L.J. Shortt

Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says ... let it be!. — Elizabeth Ann Seton

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams. — Virginia Woolf

Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. "Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth" (1 John 3:18). ~Jason Versey — Jason Versey

I love the arts, and enjoy going to the art museum whenever I get a chance. — Matthew Carter

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good. — Pete Rose

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living. — Brooks Atkinson

I acknowledge that we are all human and are on a journey. We are not born perfect, mistakes are inevitable. — Aeriel Miranda

The clouds was light but queerly yellow on their edges as they moved across the ageless constellations. — Peter Carey

You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires. — Shannon L. Alder

To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high offices this work does not aspire. It wants only to show what actually [essentially?] happened (wie es eigentlich gewesen). — Leopold Von Ranke

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park. — David Halberstam

to go on waiting for the right moment in the hope that it would never come — Norbert Gstrein

Tonight let's slay some dragons. — James L. Rubart