#out

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#empty #hope #idealism #indeed #just

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

I used to soak my mitts in a bucket of water for about two days. Then I'd put a couple of baseballs in the pocket and wrap it up with a rubber band. Today you don't have to do that, because catchers' mitts are more like first baseman's gloves. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#band #baseman #because #bucket #couple

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#first #i #landing #mars #stories

It took us about a day and a half to find out what had gone wrong. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#day #find #gone #had #half

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#anxiety #await #begins #curiosity #entrance

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#blame #freeze #heart #much #out

I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun. ↗

— Ed Bradley

#boy #covering #fun #had #i

On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#bed #having #i #occasion #other

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#company #conversation #displaying #drawing #gift