I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.

I think I'm so low key.

Blunt tools are sometimes found of use where sharper instruments would fail.

I grew up in an apartment that would have made a trailer look really decadent and nice. Pretty much the only dependable thing I had was books.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.

I've come to learn that the choices I labor over and go back and forth about and ask a million people for their opinions and make lists about... those are always the wrong choices.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

The fact of the matter is that the true hits of AOL have always been its easy-to-use services, such as AIM, email, and Buddy Lists.

On a long sweet summer night, all the kisses you bring get my temperature right. Long sweet summer night. I will love you with the day turning too. If it's the only other thing that I do.

My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years.

The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.

Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.

A residence of many years in Yorkshire, and an inveterate habit of collecting all kinds of odd and out-of-the-way information concerning men and matters, furnished me, when I left Yorkshire in 1872, with a large amount of material, collected in that county, relating to its eccentric children.

I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is an invaluable tradition.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is build but the pieces of a picture puzzle each differing in shape but matching the rest and thus bringing out the picture.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.