#abe

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands. ↗

— Lefty Gomez

#ball #bat #bearings #briefly #did

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#chastity #most #peculiar #perhaps #sexual

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#book #each #focus #halfway #having

Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they are labeled? Was whatever your child just did really the “dumbest thing you’ve ever seen somebody do”? Was it really the “most ridiculous thing they ever could have done”? Do you really believe that your child is an idiot? Because she now does. Think about that. Because you said it, she now believes it. Bravo. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#arguing #break #child #children #dads

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth. ↗

— Macy Gray

#i #like #queen

Lazarus had never thought of himself as lovable. Therefore it should come as no shock at all that Temperance did not, in fact, love him. No, not a shock... but it would have been nice had she had some small feeling for him. Lazarus pondered his own sickening craving as he guided his black gelding through the London morning throng the day after he'd walked out on Temperance. It appeared that his own nascent emotions had provoked a new desire as well: the urge to be loved. How banal. And yet, banal or not, he could not change the way his heart felt. A corner of his mouth quirked up humorlessly. It seemed he must be like other men after all. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#lazarussgextraordinaire #wicked-intensions #change

You see, party labels do not ensure unanimity any more than trying to cast the challenge we confront as a people through a partisan prism. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#cast #challenge #confront #ensure #labels

I should have titled it "Diet Like Your Life Depended On It!" because it's about so much more than just beating Diabetes. ↗

— Russell Stamets

#alternative #diabetes #diet #health #lada

I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough. ↗

— Dana Hill

#diabetes #early #go #guess #had

We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that. ↗

— Geoffrey Holder

#am #everyone #fight #free #free spirit