#rook

I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history. ↗

— Retief Goosen

#card #european #get #history #i

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ↗

— Alexander the Great

#cannot #earth #heaven #masters #nor

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art school #brooklyn #call #comics #east

The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. ↗

— John Gunther

#city #comparison #copy #crime #crooks

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#brooklyn #career #height #his #i

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