#call

No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ↗

— Paul Gallico

#cause #cleanly #crime #defined #dramatically

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#breath #cedar #dawns #fragrant #hundred

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. ↗

— Julien Green

#enter #enters #i #mist #real

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#basically #fiction #ideas #people #write

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own. ↗

— Billy Joel

#made #mistakes #only #own #things

The earth is the Lord's. Psalm 24 basically says the earth is God's property. We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on earth to see it isn't ruined. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#been #earth #given #god #living

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#applied #basically #everything #i #learned

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it. ↗

— Bill Keller

#elite #media #nice #populist #ring

There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#fraud #going #good #imminent #imminent threat