Monte Irvin Quotes

I think anybody who saw him will tell you that Willie Mays was the greatest player who ever lived.

Monte Irvin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 25, 1919 - January 11, 2016

Topics

ThinkYouWillHimTellLived

In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.

Joanna Coles

LoveRelationshipYouKnowNothing

A healthy society rests on three pillars: business, government and civil society, or non-profits. Each has a distinct and important role to play, and all three need to work together synergistically to create the most value for society.

John Mackey

WorkBusinessTogetherValueSociety

An intelligence analyst may attribute an attack to al Qaeda, whereas a policy maker could opt for the more general 'extremist.'

Michael Hayden

IntelligenceMorePolicyMayAttack

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Soren Kierkegaard

LifeGreatThoughtsIntellectual

For years, I survived as an artist on grants and touring as a dancer with dance companies, and I was living underground like so many artists, hand-to-mouth and so forth. And I never had the power to make decisions.

Ron Ben-Israel

PowerDanceDecisionsArtistLiving

Skating becomes more important to me every year. It's obviously harder as age takes a toll on the body and the brain, and I think because of that, competing becomes much more difficult. That's why those who stick around are always so appreciative of others' skating because we know how much work goes into it.

Mirai Nagasu

WorkAgeMeBrainThinkYear

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

Jason Reynolds

MeFeelingSelf-DiscoveryPerennial

The whole point of being an actor is to get satisfaction out of a role - unless you're just vain about celebrity. You're always looking for the one thing that will surprise you.

Jonny Lee Miller

LookingSurpriseYouSatisfaction

Modesty is not possible in performance in the Caribbean - and that's wonderful.

Derek Walcott

PerformancePossibleModesty

Journalists were at the forefront. From the Civil War until the early 1900s, nothing was being done to solve the problems of the Industrial Age.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

AgeWarProblemsEarlyDoneNothing

Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.

Chris Cornell

Growing UpLateGrowingRockNever

What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

TimePeopleWashingtonHollywood

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