#rook

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#begins #bigger #dream #experience #fulfillment

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got. ↗

— Lewis B. Hershey

#crooked #fellow #first #get #got

I know me, and those close to me know me. But sadly, the outside world thinks I'm some kind of a crook. ↗

— Benny Hinn

#crook #i #kind #know #me

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#dozen #finds #fish #full #memory

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones. ↗

— John Lee Hooker

#big #big ones #boat #business #career

No public man can be just a little crooked. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#just #little #man #public #public man

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. ↗

— John Hughes

#brothers #change #clothes #defined #defines

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#babbling #because #brooks #fountains #general

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#blow #brains #criminals #crook #crooks

Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#eyes #figures #heaven #herbs #lashes