Prodded Crossword Quotes & Sayings

If gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over-or undervalued, who couldn't? Bad as they may have been, the statistics used to evaluate baseball players were probably far more accurate than anything used to measure the value of people who didn't play baseball for a living. — Michael Lewis

I am going to seek a great perhaps. — Francois Rabelais

I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes (harmonies) that were being used all the time ... I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I'd been hearing. I came alive. — Charlie Parker

When nurses drink, they have a tendency to go all in. They're like cops that way. — Stephen King

But sooner or later, one needs to learn that their past follows them like ghosts of untold stories. — Meghan Blistinsky

The spirit of poetry, like all other living powers, must of necessity circumscribe itself by rules, were it only to unite power with beauty. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge