Jim Morris Quotes

From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name on my jersey, be in the clubhouse with major-league players, see my family for the first time in three months, be in my home state and pitch the day I got called up, was incredible.

Jim Morris

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

FamilyHomeTimeDayNameThree

I played college basketball. When I first decided I was going to play football, there were a lot of people telling me that I wasn't going to make it.

Jimmy Graham

FootballPeopleCollegeMePlay

Whenever I see a Frans Hals, I feel the desire to paint; but when I see a Rembrandt, I want to give it up.

Max Liebermann

FeelDesireWantSeeI SeePaint

The most important in the history of nations and individuals was once the most trivial, and vice versa. The plebeian, who is called today the 'man in the street,' can never see and understand the significance of the hidden seed of things, which in time must develop or die.

Ameen Rihani

TodayHistoryTimeManSeedDie

By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

Robert Dallek

TimePresidentIllusionsSecond

I'm a big boy, and I knew what I was getting into when I got into TV.

Mike O'Malley

BoyBigGotKnewTVGetting

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

Julia Holter

LookingReadingInternetPhoneLike

I try to not think too much about how people are receiving my music. And I'm not really famous enough that it's a problem.

Julia Holter

MusicPeopleThinkProblemEnough

Kneejerk interventionism or kneejerk isolationism is the wrong course for Britain.

Douglas Alexander

WrongCourseIsolationismBritain

Being nice to everybody, saying hello to everyone in the room, signing every autograph; it was instilled in me at a very young age that this was what I was suppose to do. But I don't think it helps at all. I see more people who are rude or arrogant being rewarded - but, this way, I can put my head on the pillow at night.

Brooke Shields

AgePeopleMeNightSayingThink

I love being middle-aged in general. I'm more at peace with myself now. I still have tormented times, but they are few and far between. You don't feel you have to be the centre of your world when you get older. Becoming a mother had been a turning point which stopped me from being the centre of my world.

Alison Moyet

LoveMotherMyselfPeaceMeWorld

I love trains. I don't even mind First Great Western, which is a stupid name because it implies every carriage is first class, but they're not.

Tim Rice

LoveGreatMindStupidNameClass

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas.

Kim Jee-woon

WorkQualityIdeasUnderstandWithin

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jim Morris