You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
By : Earl Weaver
First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.
By : Maximilian Schell
Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.
By : Laurie Anderson
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
By : Donna Tartt
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
By : William Cobbett
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.
By : Walter Pater
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
By : Reed Hundt
We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges.
By : Barney Ross
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.
By : Maurice Strong