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
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
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.Thomas Alva Edison
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
Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.' Mickey Mantle