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.

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.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Never speak from a place of hate jealousy anger or insecurity. Evaluate your words before you let them leave your lips. Sometimes its best to be quiet.

Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing.

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

Now i am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.

I am unknown because I've avoided the limelight so that I could serve. In the case of Donald Trump, he has avoided service so that he could seek the limelight.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

I want a future where my children feel safe and appreciated and proud to be who they are. My heart is one with all the Arab Spring heroes, no matter how small they think their role is. I know they believe, like me, that we are working for a world whereby an Arab can live with the other in a respectful and dignified way.

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

True play is creativity.

I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

The street finds its own uses for things.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

Reincarnation is essential to enable the soul to evolve to its Divine right.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

The closer we come to the negative, to death, the more we blossom.

Music's something you feel. You have to feel it first before you hear it.