#pit

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ↗

— Don Marquis

#likeable #persons #some #spite #their

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage. ↗

— Pedro Martinez

#i #pitch #probably #stage #think

Today many Caribbean workers can be found in the hospital, construction, service and hotel industries, but there is also a growing professional sector. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#caribbean #construction #found #growing #hospital

By the way, you won't put that thing in about me wanting to have sex on a football pitch, will you? ↗

— Louise Nurding

#football #me #pitch #put #sex

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#knowledge #life #longing #love #mankind

Very well then! I'll write, write write. He let the words soak into his mind and displace all else. A man had a choice, after all. He devoted his life to his work or to his wife and children and home. It could not be combined; not in this day and age. In this insane world where God was second to income and goodness to wealth. (“Mad House”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#career #creativity #writers #writing #age

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game. ↗

— Cy Young

#get #good #got #hit #lucky

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign. ↗

— Cy Young

#dollars #gets #gosh #kid #sign

The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#crime #economics #age