Bill Veeck Quotes

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Bill Veeck

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: businessman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1914 - January 2, 1986

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We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Jimmy Carl Black

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If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

Joey Adams

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I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.

Jens Lekman

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Old men are children for the second time.

Menander

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I was coerced into taking piano lessons in the early '50s. It was a quite unpleasant experience.

Robert Quine

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In 1970, I had begun work on the basic pancreatic trypsin inhibitor which has later become the model compound for the development of protein NMR, molecular dynamics, and experimental folding studies in other laboratories.

Robert Huber

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The late brilliant actions in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas divided and weakened the enemy on the Rappahannock, and the auspicious moment seems to have arrived to strike a great and mortal blow at the Rebellion, and to gain that decisive victory which is due to the country.

Ambrose Burnside

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Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.

Robert Wilkie

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In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

Robert Wyatt

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The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

Rush Limbaugh

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Yes, I think about having a career in boxing, but I want to start from the bottom, start from zero. I want to get ranked and one day fight for a belt. I don't want to fight just to fight, for money, to go after big fights and challenge a great champion.

Jose Aldo

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I don't really believe in the myth of being poor but happy. At the poorest times in my life, I wasn't happy. I was just hungry.

Ali Liebegott

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