Quotes By The Day

[conlor]

Pete Rose
(Born 4/14/1941)

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.
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I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
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The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
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Sliding headfirst is the safest way to get to the next base, I think, and the fastest. You don't lose your momentum, and there's one more important reason I slide headfirst, it gets my picture in the paper.
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I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

[Snowden]

Pulitzer's quotes, from April 10th, are really depressing. Consider our media of today, and think about this:

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

And this:

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

And then it's capped with this quote:

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

If it's true, we're in big trouble.

[conlor]

Yes, we are. Journalists should be required to take political and more sociology courses!

[conlor]

Classic Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci (4/15/1452-1519) Italian artist, writer, inventor, and philosopher

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
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Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
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Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
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For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
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He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
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Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

[conlor]

Classic Quotes by Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin

(AKA Charlie Chaplin)

(4/16/1889-1977) English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
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All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
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Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
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I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
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I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
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I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
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In the end, everything is a gag.

[conlor]

Harry Reasoner
60 Minutes Anchorman, Journalist
(4/17/1923-8/6/1990)

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.
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We're all controlled neurotics.
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Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.