#hr

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#bat #before #crack #hears #long

Chris Cutler was kind enough to offer his company as an umbrella, so now I can have all my back catalogue under one roof as it were, and it has the same feeling as with Daniel; this is a matter between friends rather than businessmen. ↗

— Fred Frith

#between #businessmen #catalogue #chris #company

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks. ↗

— Al Franken

#capital #enough #everybody #first #foot

Religion has always been an irrelevant aspect if my life. The people here are either pissed of atheists, or religious freaks waiting for God to save them. ↗

— Alina Baker

#christianity #religion #life

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night. ↗

— Michael Franti

#change the world #difficult #help #i #know

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#days #everybody #going #how #lives

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#absolutely #after #along #back #been

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#chris #end #happy #him #his

I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#artists #business #charity #hold #i