Roger Angell Quotes

Once I could persuade these guys that all I wanted to hear from them was what they did - Tell me what you do - once you can persuade someone that this is all you're after, you can't shut them up because we're all fascinated by what we do.

Roger Angell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 19, 1920

Topics

MeSomeoneYouTellUpBecause

I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.

Jennifer Konner

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Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Jeff Bezos

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When I play at home, I feel like I'm flying.

Riyad Mahrez

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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.

Michael McKean

KindEvenBenign

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

Douglas Wilson

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Food insecurity is not remotely the same as hunger.

Bret Stephens

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I had an explosion on my vocal chord.

Boy George

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There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really!

Sylvester McCoy

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When you ask people about guys they didn't like because they were aggressive, there's me, John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors; not too many names would come up.

Pete Rose

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I would be ready to become a dad if I was with the right person. I'd like a boy, though. Because they're in charge.

Mario Balotelli

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For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Martin Luther

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The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

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