I played baseball because I could make more money doing that than I could doing anything else. Bill Terry Read Quote
Throughout high school, I peddled my eggs, had a vendor stand at the local curb market – precursor to today’s farmers’ markets – and competed in 4-H contests and interscholastic debate. Joel Salatin Read Quote
Everyone talks about the elusive thing with chemistry. If you have a romance on screen or anything, the first thing you have to do is become friends with the person. It’s not necessarily about falling in love. Seamus Dever Read Quote
I always hated watching bands: the guy would break a string or be out of tune, and I have perfect pitch, so it would always tick me off when a guy is up there, and he’d break a string. Rick Nielsen Read Quote
A lot of times, comedy writers will go for the gay joke, and I’ve been vocal about saying, ‘Go for the smart joke.’ Michael Arden Read Quote
Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, ‘He kept us out of war.’ But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition – made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight – had his back. Greg Grandin Read Quote
My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n’ roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music. Robert Palmer Read Quote
When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser. Jean-Georges Vongerichten Read Quote