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Bob Uecker Quotes

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Bob Uecker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 26, 1935

Topics

Me Flame Box Playing Ashes Dozen

When the president decides that he knows better than you know what's good for you or your family, we've got trouble in this country.

John Barrasso

Family Good Better You Trouble Know

Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.

Matthew Desmond

Community Job People Book Search Go

A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

Stephen Hawking

Travel Step Space First Step Flight

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

Russell Smith

Love Great Angry Wrong Sometimes

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

Livy

Freedom King Old Over Sweetness Had

I want my audiences to be as open-minded as my characters.

Jason Reitman

Want Open-Minded Characters Audiences

The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way they sound. A poet's biography lies in his twists of language, in his meters, rhymes, and metaphors.

Joseph Brodsky

Birds Language Data Way Sound Real

Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Alice Dreger

Work Appreciation New Normal Forever

Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Light Mask True Sight Virtue First

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Peter Tork

Music Time Situation Same Used Were

In December 2011, I will be opening up my production house, Sharmeen Obaid Films, and aspire to change the way Pakistanis approach nonfiction storytelling. There are thousands of stories to be found here.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Change House Will Way Storytelling

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.

Tika Sumpter

Stars God Talent Singing You Acting