Sized Baseball Quotes & Sayings

I was able to get operated on four days after I was diagnosed. It was just a matter of getting this baseball-sized tumor out of me. I reflect now on how lucky I was to be in the situation where I could get the best possible help and treatment. — Eric Davis

Chess sharpens the mind, stimulates concentration, improves the memory and promotes visualization. — Samuel Reshevsky

They live by symbols. They read meaning into the barrage of spam on the unused computer, the delete key that stops working, the imagined abandonment in the decision to replace it. The voice on my answering machine is still John's. The fact that it was his in the first place was arbitrary, having to do with who was around on the day the answering machine last needed programming, but if I needed to retape it now I would do so with a sense of betrayal. One day when I was talking on the telephone in his office I mindlessly turned the pages of the dictionary that he had always left open on the table by the desk. When I realized what I had done I was stricken: what word had he last looked up, what had he been thinking? By turning the pages had I lost the message? Or had the message been lost before I touched the dictionary? Had I refused to hear the message? I — Joan Didion

I scuff the toe of my boot through the dirt, uncovering pine needles and half-rotted leaves shed by the cottonwood looming over me. My dirt, I think. My land. — Rae Carson

I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning. — Mitchel Resnick

I think you just gave me a mini-orgasm," I shared.
"If you get your ass over here, I'll give you one that is not mini. — Kristen Ashley

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood. — Tanith Lee

There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age. — Ira Sachs

Real scientists investigate parts, not wholes. But this diminishes the goals of true science. What most scientists are doing today really should be called technology, not science. — T. Colin Campbell

Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison. — Christopher Hitchens

If our theology does not quicken the conscience and soften the heart, it actually hardens both. — J.I. Packer

Hey Orion? Put some pants on, toss her over your shoulder, and carry her off like a man, for the love of Pete! — Josephine Angelini

Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water. — David Viscott

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons. — Ruth Rendell

Experience has taught me that it is always better to be well rested than to know what you are doing - Nanny Piggins — R.A. Spratt