And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball. Willie Mays
It's not hard. When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But when I'm hitting, I hit anybody. Willie Mays
I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park. Willie Mays
I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one. Donald Barthelme
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit. Donald Barthelme
Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. They've been a laboratory for everybody. Donald Barthelme
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. Donald Barthelme
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races. Abdul kalam
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream! Abdul kalam
The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else. Whitey Herzog
You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms. Whitey Herzog
What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed. Whitey Herzog
I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over. David Eddings