Quotes about t
two people waiting
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too. Bill Veeck
team individual-effort games
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
two next batteries
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
thinking winning important
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
thinking unbreakable knows
The more you know about English, the less you're likely to think there are unbreakable "rules" for a lot of things. Bill Walsh
technology way phenomenon
There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.
trying finals paper
My theory is that, just like with omitting a final comma in a list when not essential for meaning, publishers are trying to save paper and ink or pixels on-screen.
two helping function
The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).
teacher self goal
The ability to help the people around me self-actualize their goals underlines the single aspect of my abilities and the label that I value most—teacher.
talking finding-yourself never-forget
When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not. Bill Walton
team dry milk
It's the most pleasurable experience in the world! When you're on a great team and you get hot, your teammates milk you dry - they wear you out and there's nothing like being on a great team.
team disaster
Anytime you bring Michael Olowokandi on to your team, disaster is soon to follow.
thinking
When everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks.
two hands knees
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.
team school eight
If the UCLA teams of the late 1960s and early 1970s were subjected to the kind of scrutiny (other schools) have been, UCLA would probably have to forfeit about eight national championships and be on probation for the next 100 years.
teamwork believe grateful
The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
thinking age
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
thinking people pay
People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something. Bill Watterson
thinking would-be knows
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
thinking today reason
For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.
taken artist talking
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development. I assume they're either homages or satiric riffs, and are not intended to be taken too seriously as works in their own right. Otherwise I should be talking to a copyright lawyer.
thinking misunderstood genius
I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
thinking google way
I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.
talking experience body
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
tests acid failing
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
thinking hobbes wells
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
thinking political paper
I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price.
technology people trying
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
thinking hiccups amusement
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
trying littles surreal
I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.
thinking political killers
I guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist.
thinking weekend purpose
I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose
tiny problem trouble
My problem is that I don't paint ambitiously. It's all catch and release - just tiny fish that aren't really worth the trouble to clean and cook.