Christy Mathewson Quotes

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1880 - October 7, 1925

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I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

Jim Sturgess

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Our embedded reporters during the war agreed to guidelines established by the military.

Jim Walton

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We always describe a piece as 'really lively' where it seems the work dances off the paper or the silk. Art has to hit you on an emotional level rather than just the analytical.

Jerry Yang

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I consider myself a remarkably unsentimental person. I don't look back on the good old days.

John Carmack

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I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

Simon Van Booy

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If you become more of a witness to the way you're engaging in life, you can catch yourself really screwing up some days!

Trudie Styler

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Just to be involved in anything Disney, whether it's 'Avengers Assemble' or 'Planes' or straight-to-dvd work, it's great.

Roger Craig Smith

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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

Rita Dove

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I don't think we should always look at the Chinese like they're taking jobs. They are also bring us more and more jobs. Because, they are the biggest growing consumer. I think what is going on in China is exciting.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Fruitcakes have a bad rap.

Christina Tosi

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Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

Anthony Foxx

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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation.

Alice Miller

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