#ill

Hitting a baseball well, as in cricket, is a very rare skill. One of most difficult things to do in the world to do, hitting a ball coming at you at ninety miles an hour with a round bat. Wonderful to watch. ↗

— Peter Tork

#baseball #bat #coming #cricket #difficult

I am a still friend with Dave Crosby, he's a weird duck but I like him a lot. ↗

— Peter Tork

#crosby #dave #duck #friend #him

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music. ↗

— Peter Tork

#i #just #music #now #pop

How many radio shows I did is lost to memory now; it's in the hundreds - maybe even close to being in the thousands - for the span of years from the time I was eight till I was about fifteen. ↗

— Mel Torme

#being #close #did #eight #even

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#cut #directors #encourage #i #lines

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared. ↗

— James Forrestal

#did #even #gang #hitler #inconceivable

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#find #interesting #large #life #like

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#mind #thrilled #vice #vulgar

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#anything #cannot #define #else #final

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#chinese #cultivate #employer #even #extensively