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Ring Lardner Quotes

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: March 6, 1885 - September 25, 1933

Topics

Happiness Game Think Real Something

Part of me goes back to being 8 years old and going on the train 45 minutes to wait at a bank to get Ernie Banks' autograph. Or when I was a ball boy, becoming best buddies with some of the undrafted or late-drafted guys, them becoming like our big brothers, and then the pain of cut day and watching them get cut.

Best Day Pain Me Wait Back

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

Work Hard Work Father Day Law Hard

You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Good Walk You Want Out Stomach

My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called 'Relatively Speaking,' which was three one-act comedies, one of which was written by Ethan and one of which was by Woody.

Time Play Three Introduction Same

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

Anna Julia Cooper

Life Heart Men Woman Inspire She

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Change Freedom Power Imagination

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Stephen Colbert

Work Think Care Go Want Actor

I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

Stephen Hawking

History Time Best Expected Brief

I slice up a ton of cucumbers, celery, carrots and red and yellow peppers. Keep them in your fridge so you always have something handy to curb your snack attack.

Red Yellow You Snack Always Up

Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.

Time Budget You Find More Project

I won't quit to become someone's old lady.

Someone Lady Quit Become Old

Every time I went into the studio some engineer tried to impress me with how they're going to capture my sound with all kinds of tricks. But they limited the sound and never allowed me to play how I felt.

Time Me Play Capture Never Impress

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