#ace

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. ↗

— Sammy Sosa

#go #home #home runs #middle #pennant

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. ↗

— Alfred Sisley

#beholder #craft #highest #his #loveliness

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. ↗

— Red Skelton

#been #brings #chance #chuckle #clown

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#inconvenient #man #poverty #us

The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places? ↗

— Maggie Smith

#cancer #chemotherapy #else #everybody #everybody else

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods. ↗

— Margaret Chase Smith

#end #greatness #high #justifying #manifested

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family. ↗

— Patti Smith

#another #any #anybody #because #childhood

I'm a worker. I do the work to communicate, and I want people to embrace it, and when they do I'm happy. ↗

— Patti Smith

#embrace #happy #i #i do #people

Usually when I go to a place for the first time, unless there's something historical or spectacular that nature has to offer, the first thing I like to do is see what's on the minds of the people. ↗

— Patti Smith

#first thing #first time #go #historical #i

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it. ↗

— Robert Smith

#about #always #face #i #more