He's sitting in the catbird seat.

Whenever you have a tight situation and there's a close pitch, the umpire gets a squawk no matter how he calls it.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

This is Red Barber speaking. Let me say hello to you all.

When I'm talking to a large audience, I imagine that I'm talking to a single person.

He's sitting in the catbird seat.

When I was in baseball and you went into the clubhouse, you didn't see ball players with curling irons.

You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.

Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

Human beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.

Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

Most people who ask me what's my favorite song, expect that it's 'Midnight Train' or 'Neither One of Us.' But actually, it's always kinda been 'The Need to Be' because of what it says. I love the way that song was written, I love the melody, I love everything about it.

I don't get the romances. I did try - a film called 'Roseanna's Grave' in the 1990s. I liked it. But the audience didn't come.

I don't watch much television.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Some people as far as your senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Any dream is possible as long as you believe.