#tea

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team. ↗

— Jim Evans

#four #i #i do #job #manager

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#better #change #even #final #form

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#ball #ball games #become #better #busy

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#another #beat #buy #club #death

I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#drop #i #i can #know #longevity

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#been #emotional #fan #fears #hear

The vast majority of people who watch baseball can properly call 95% of all plays that happen on the field. My job is to teach you how to call the other 5%. ↗

— Jim Evans

#call #field #happen #how #job

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students? ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#course #discussion #does #himself #his

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#book #books #divine #great #how