#one

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind. ↗

— Humphrey Bogart

#drinks #everyone #few #problem #world

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know. ↗

— Derek Bok

#asserted #attitude #done #embarrassment #graduates

The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money. ↗

— Peter Bogdanovich

#actor #because #clue #control #else

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#because #call #dad #father #game

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#coronation #declaration #future #given #god

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#make #out #riddle #someone #who

I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#i #knowing #over #strike #walks

In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball. ↗

— Wade Boggs

#day #enjoyed #every #every day #game

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all. ↗

— Black Elk

#am #beautiful #because #did #die