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

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.

Many medal winners dream of competing in a sport other than the one they're famous for.

I have learned that I am a one-woman man.

No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.

Every government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making.

Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.

No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

I would love to meet a dodo.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next.

We can't continue to kick the can when it comes to the fiscal state of this country.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death a foretaste of the hour when ones flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

First you forget names then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally you forget to pull it down.

I wouldnt say that processed food ready meals and oven takeaways arent relevant to modern life its just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.