Mordecai Brown Quotes

I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn't have much control.

Mordecai Brown

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1876 - February 14, 1948

Topics

GoodControlWorldSeePrettySet

If you're wearing something I like, I will come over and ask where you got it from. I'm not shy!

Joanne Froggatt

YouShyWillAskOverSomething

I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.

Jodi Picoult

MeWritingDrivingHandsSometimes

I'm very much inspired by things that anger me. If I see bigotry, stupidity, or injustice on the news, I'm inspired to find a way to make it into something comedic and relatable. Anger inspires me. Stupidity inspires me. My family inspires me. My accountant inspires me. Everything and anything, really.

Maysoon Zayid

FamilyAngerStupidityMeInjustice

I'm not a policy oriented person. I'm constrained to what I study. But educational policy has not yet taken adequate note of the whole child. Kids are not just their IQ or standardized test scores. It matters whether or not they show up, how hard they work.

Angela Duckworth

WorkChildPersonTestMattersHard

My dad and mom were in bands: the Soda Jerks, Fat Time, Girls at Play - which is a play on Men at Work.

Sia

WorkTimeMenMomFatPlay

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

Tom Perez

OrganizingEndeavor

I like to write with people I have a relationship with; otherwise it's kind of scary, and you hold back because you don't want to pour your guts out to someone you never met.

Miranda Lambert

RelationshipPeopleSomeoneYouBack

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

Dionne Warwick

TimePeopleMeFeelLongLook

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Diane Sawyer

MemoryWayAlwaysFactFascinated

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Donnie Wahlberg

DayPeopleControlThinkEndEnjoy

All of my husbands have robbed me blind.

Debbie Reynolds

MeBlindRobbedHusbands

I sang and played keyboard, so I was virtually a statue at the back of the stage. I'm not complaining about that; I enjoyed that role.

Christine McVie

BackComplainingStageStatueRole

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