Chick Hearn Quotes

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

Chick Hearn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 27, 1916 - August 5, 2002

Topics

GreatTogetherPeopleMeGameBlind

Adolescence is a tough one to be a child actor.

Jodie Foster

ChildToughActorAdolescence

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Polanyi

KnowledgeMindFactsOnlyPopular

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

Tom Robbins

ShoesWalkYourselfSunCloudsYou

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Martin Scorsese

LoveLightDaySayingThinkGrow

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

Jason Reynolds

CommunityMeLanguageEleganceWay

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

Jay Baruchel

UnderdogGrowYouCanadaGrow UpUp

Power is competence.

Jordan Peterson

PowerCompetence

The key is not the will to win... everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

Bobby Knight

WinKeyImportantWillPrepare

When you're five years old, and you're running a business that people did not think there was room for, getting attention is not a bad thing. Letting it be known by whatever colorful language is necessary is not a bad thing.

Brit Hume

BusinessPeopleThinkLanguageYou

Autoimmunity is probably the next frontier. The majority of cases of autoimmune disease result from a complex genetic problem that has environmental influences. It is a colossal task for the immune system to maintain tolerance to self and yet be ready to react to everything in the world around us.

Bruce Beutler

EnvironmentalWorldSelfProblem

Who would say no to a film like 'Gunday?'

Arjun Kapoor

SayFilmWouldWhoLike

I try to choose characters that are very different; I think I have succeeded in that. A big role or a small one does not bother me at all. What matters is that I should have a rapport with the director.

Nithya Menen

MeSmallThinkChooseTryMatters

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