#oak

I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet. ↗

— Pee Wee Reese

#dodgers #enough #five #foot #four

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#black #could #everybody #felt #fortunate

I see more people taking on the cloak of accountability, more people tiring of the blame game. If we are all connected and our actions in Australia affect us in Istanbul, then we are all to blame and all to be healers. We can't blame lawyers anymore for the 'liability' vs. common sense imbalance. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#actions #affect #anymore #australia #blame

I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away. ↗

— Zane Grey

#cloak #dark #folded #gone #had

Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up. ↗

— Ken Hill

#dry #flowers #like #minds #sit

Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. ↗

— William Proxmire

#check #cloak #dangerous #doubly #especially

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this? ↗

— Eric San

#cloak #conspiring #dagger #each #i

Barristan Semly was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. Some had been heroes, some weaklings, knaves, or cravens. Most were only men - quicker and stronger than most, more skilled with sword and shield, but still prey to pride, ambition, lust, love, anger, jealousy, greed for gold, hunger for power, and all the other failing that afflicted lesser mortals. The best of them overcame their flaws, did their duty, and died with their swords in their hands. The worst ... The worst were those who played the game of thrones. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#the-kingsguard #the-white-cloaks #anger

I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#definitely #football #i #oakland #punk

What happened to YOU old partner?" Lex asked him. "Suicide I take it?" He frowned. "Worse - business school. Can you believe it? Two years of Croak, then one day the kid decided he wants to be the next Donald Trump. So we threw him in a car, dropped him off near Woodstock and now he think he spent the past two years in a drug-addled haze at some hippie commune. ↗

— Gina Damico

#driggs #gina-damico #lex #business