Umpiring The Wedge Quotes & Sayings

I was a troubled teen and I was constantly looking for someone to throw me a rope. Those ropes are connections. They allow us to see that life exists beyond the little worlds we are currently a part of. — Lauren Oliver

Years earlier, I might have scoffed, but I'd come to accept that, for Snowden's generation, they played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world than literature, television, and film. They, too, often present complex moral dilemmas and provoke contemplation, especially for people beginning to question what they've been taught. — Glenn Greenwald

There's only one rule: The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins. Period. Because you won't die. Even though you feel like you'll die, you don't actually die. Like when you're training, you can always do one more. Always. As tired as you might think you are, you can always, always do one more. — Floyd Landis

The ad in the paper said 'Big Sale. Last Week.' Why advertise? I already missed it. They're just rubbing it in. — Yakov Smirnoff

The universe is not more beautiful than your pure thoughts-enlighten the world around you, the rest is complementary... — Vedang Sati

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility. — William Penn

Orthodox theologians insisted that the rest of humankind were only transitory creatures, lost in sin - a view that would support what would become their dominant teaching about salvation, offered only through Christ, and, in particular, through the church they claimed to represent. — Elaine Pagels

But there was nothing wrong with their marriage. I could be a fool for believing this one hundred percent, but there was never anyone for Dominic but Jacinta and vice versa. They knew they'd get through the shitty part." "But they didn't," he argues. "They're not divorced, Tom. That marriage is not over. — Melina Marchetta

He's a genius, she's a genius, wow, you know alot of geniuses, you should meet some stupid people sometime, you might learn something — Woody Allen

Milo carefully said nothing when Major de Coverley stepped into the mess hall with his fierce and austere dignity the day he returned and found his way blocked by a wall of officers waiting in line to sign loyalty oaths. At the far end of the food counter, a group of men who had arrived earlier were pledging allegiance to the flag, with trays of food balanced in one hand, in order to be allowed to take seats at the table. Already at the tables, a group that had arrived still earlier was singing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' in order that they might use the salt and pepper and ketchup there. — Joseph Heller

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself. — Emmeline Pankhurst

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians — Edward Albee

Within the heart of every boy is an adventurer. — Kevin Leman

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done. — Jose Bergamin