I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell.

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game.

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

A saboteur in the house of art and a comedienne in the house of art theory, Lawler has spent three decades documenting the secret life of art. Functioning as a kind of one-woman CSI unit, she has photographed pictures and objects in collectors' homes, in galleries, on the walls of auction houses, and off the walls, in museum storage.

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

I never needed much, and I never thought I'd get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

When I was growing up, I always knew that if I ever got anything, I was going to give back as much as I can. I learned that all you have to be willing to do is give your time.

Big fires flare up in a wind but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result. I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.

Don't nobody wanna talk about or hear about somebody donating money to a charity. You wanna hear about what Bin Laden is doing and what you think is on his mind.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

I can't sleep without the TV on, so we leave it on during the night, and that's what wakes me up - Joe Scarborough and 'Morning Joe' at 7:30 or 8.

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.

Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race.

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.

If you make every game a life and death thing youre going to have problems. Youll be dead a lot.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a video camera and charge me $100 for every half-hour.