Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
~By Wade Boggs ~
A tree against the sky possesses the same interest, the same character, the same expression as the figure of a human.
~By Georges Rouault ~
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
~By John Ruskin ~
Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.
~By Daniel Libeskind ~
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
~By Immanuel Kant ~
Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize - once it's passed - that, A, it does take care of preexisting conditions; B, you're insurance rates aren't going to skyrocket; C, the insurance companies aren't going to be running the show like they were before; D, you're going to be in a position where you can keep your insurance that you have. That once the American public realizes that, you're going to get a reward for this. They're going to be rewarded.
~By Joe Biden ~
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't.
~By Yancy Butler ~
The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
We have just started, and if you compare the number of people using Skype to the number using a telephone network around the world, we're still just starting.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
~By Sai Baba ~
Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
~By Major R. Owens ~
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
~By Michael Ende ~
My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
~By Barack Obama ~
There is the sky, which is all men's together.
~By Euripides ~
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe.
~By Brian Greene ~
Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.
~By Margaret Walker ~
The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
~By Solomon Short ~
Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.
~By Raymond E. Feist ~
Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.
~By Eric McCormack ~
The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.
~By Pamela Hansford Johnson ~
The sky isn't falling.
~By Thomas Leonard ~
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
~By John Lubbock ~
Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
~By John Dyer ~
The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.
~By Federico Garcia Lorca ~
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.
~By Max Beckmann ~
Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.
~By Alice Hoffman ~
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
~By Catherine Helen Spence ~
There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cotton; and where the blue sky was visible, it wore a hazy and languid aspect.
~By Francis Parkman ~
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.
~By Denis Waitley ~
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
~By Herman Hesse ~
The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.
~By Ben Harper ~
The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.
~By Henry Morton Stanley ~
As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
~By Russ Carnahan ~
If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.
~By Ted Danson ~
You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
~By Alan Watts ~
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
~By Zhuangzi ~
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.
~By Thomas Hardy ~
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I'm using all my resources to help me with that and I feel the sky is the limit for me.
~By William Green ~
You are still lucky - you have a certain type of people who keep buying your music - but then you can get typecast and have to keep making that same music, and you can change only slightly. It's risky to bounce around and change your type of music.
~By Randy Bachman ~
I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.
~By Bridget Hall ~
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
~By Ayn Rand ~
But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
Music fathoms the sky.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.
~By James Donald ~
Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.
~By Larry Norman ~
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
~By A. E. Housman ~
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
Some of the best news stories start in gossip. Monica Lewinsky certainly was gossip in the beginning. I had heard it months before I printed it.
~By Matt Drudge ~
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
~By Otto Weininger ~
I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.
~By Norman MacCaig ~
Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
~By Chuck Yeager ~
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
~By Ben Stiller ~
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
~By John Masefield ~
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
~By Clement Clarke Moore ~
I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.
~By James Callaghan ~
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die.
~By Joe Hill ~
Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.
~By Chris A. Bridges ~
On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.
~By Claude Nicollier ~
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
~By John Mellencamp ~
They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.
~By Luc Montagnier ~
For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment.
~By Grace Napolitano ~
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Hey, nothing grows to the sky. There will be a successor movement. Right now it's nascent.
~By Peter Brimelow ~
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
~By William Gibson ~
My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
~By Al Jarreau ~
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But no, the sky is not falling - baseball is such a great game that neither the owners nor the players can kill it. After some necessary carnage, market forces will prevail.
~By John Thorn ~
I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
~By Ursula Andress ~
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.
~By Helen Keller ~
The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.
~By Tom Robbins ~
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
~By Antony Hewish ~
Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
~By Karl Rove ~
And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.
~By Trent Reznor ~
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.
~By Grandma Moses ~
And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
~By Gerald Scarfe ~
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
~By Josh Billings ~
The President forgot to mention the Moon, Mars, and the federal deficit - all of which are sky-high.
~By Brad Sherman ~
I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
~By Steven Wright ~
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
~By John Lubbock ~
The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.
~By Paul Bowles ~
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
~By Sylvia Plath ~
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
~By Jules Feiffer ~
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