#ge

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it. ↗

— Red Barber

#close #gets #how #matter #pitch

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ↗

— Thomas Griffith

#analyzed #anticipated #interest #new #news

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way. ↗

— William Barclay

#going #him #insist #know #knowing

Common sense as well as common values all lead us. Our future depends upon it and our present is going to be vastly better when we get back to these basics. ↗

— Joan Blades

#basics #better #common #common sense #common values

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

I retired from rugby because I was old and getting really slow. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#getting #i #old #really #retired

I have skinny genes. My mother weighs 90 pounds. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#i #mother #pounds #skinny #weighs

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#grow #nice #old #ripen #sad

Vadim changed my mind about acting. Vadim was the only man who was certain I had something special to offer. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#acting #certain #changed #had #i

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song. ↗

— Travis Barker

#bands #changes #different #go #lot