Max?” said the Gasman. “Are those, um, rats?” Lovely. “Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids,” I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.
The main idea is to win.
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but because Honus (Wagner) could have been first at any other position, with the possible exception of pitcher. In all my career, I never saw such a versatile player.
You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
The main thing is to win.
(Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
The travesty of slavery wasn't physical abuse. It was the moral abuse of looking at a human being as if they are an animal.
We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.
But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.
That is my theory to explain the I don't knows. It's human.