Umpiring Baseball Quotes & Sayings

It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. — Margery Sharp

The entire world is understood as a living interrelated and interactive system. Thus, if a tree outside of the zendo is damaged, I am also damaged. Just so, if I am damaged, so too, the Universe. — Harvey Daiho Hilbert-roshi

Falling into a black hole would not be pleasant, having your limbs torn asunder and all the while appearing to your friends to be frozen in time just as you fell in — Joanne Baker

Before I joined professional baseball, I started umpiring in San Diego, California. I worked 155 games in a five-month season. For three years in a row, I was working tripleheaders on Saturday and doubleheaders on Sunday. — Doug Harvey

Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same. — Kevin Kline

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. — H.L. Mencken

It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God. — Mahatma Gandhi

This Golden Globe nomination is sweet validation for the years of hard work it took to bring Coraline to life using stop-motion animation with the greatest crew of animators, artists, and technicians I've ever been privileged to work with. I share this nomination with all of them and we all share our thanks to the Hollywood Foreign Press. — Henry Selick