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Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#better #books #children #enter #feel

Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#close #easy #explained #face #game

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.' ↗

— George Brett

#around #ball game #baseball #baseball game #before

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do. ↗

— Bob Uecker

#as far as #baseball #bragging #chances #could

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #i love #john #love #marriage

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war. ↗

— John Bright

#any #aware #compared #contributor #cotton

Lead roles are fun, but I'm especially happy other, more colorful supporting stuff has come along. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#colorful #come #especially #fun #happy

Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured. ↗

— Alton Brown

#being #fascinating #ice #manufactured #me

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and DC comics, they had been my main interests in my teenage years. ↗

— Chester Brown

#before #begun #comics #course #crumb

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me. ↗

— Chester Brown

#interest #interesting #interviews #just #liked