Lassiter Baseball Quotes & Sayings

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it. — Mark Slouka

I think it was really crucial that the actress was age appropriate. There are films, such as An Education, where that wasn't the case, and I think that really affects how you receive what you're watching. — David Schwimmer

And she told me the same thing, she said that when I came back in the winter, she was going to miss missing me ... — Ursula K. Le Guin

Gardeners may create order briefly out of chaos, but nature always gets the last word, and what it says is usually untidy by human standards. But I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos on one day and let the Japanese beetles run riot on the next. — Diane Ackerman

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment. — Louise Erdrich

I enjoy films where two characters are coming of age, just different ages. That's why I love 'Paper Moon' so much. — Emma Forrest

I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. — Jens Lekman

I thought the race could be won in the last kilometers in the park. Every hill I ran in training I ran to gain an extra step in the park. — Paul Tergat

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation. — Lawrence O'Donnell

(Motherhood) I want her to have this thing I have that's so ordinary and tedious and aggravating, and then, so divine. — Kelly Corrigan

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets. — Tom Stoppard

between a full-time job, law school, hours of reading cases, and study groups, I barely have time to sleep, much less date. Which is why I gave them up. "Which floor?" His upper crust Brit accent curls around my spine, making mush out of me. "Uh, — Magda Alexander

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence. — Don Shula

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality. — Hassan Blasim