They had a tremendous upbringing at home. They were already good kids; true teammates, not only in b...
DAN SPELLMAN If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.
BRIAN SPELLMAN No stupid questions? I question that!
BRIAN SPELLMAN That's art. Nothing is for everybody.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Okay, you won our shitty little argument. Pass the world.
BRIAN SPELLMAN I can't name just one example. Then there's only one.
BRIAN SPELLMAN I was accused of always acting superior. Always means being, not acting.
BRIAN SPELLMAN He who laughs last laughs ... doesn't get it.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.
BRIAN SPELLMAN GENERAL INTELLIGENCE! Form a straight line.
BRIAN SPELLMAN We are impressed with the resources that the CMO Council provides to marketers, and we deeply believ...
KATE SPELLMAN They're good but not all as good as each other.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Nostalgia was never what it used to be.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Allow me to contradict my clarifications and in no time we'll get to the bottom of nothing.
BRIAN SPELLMAN I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.
BRIAN SPELLMAN I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.
BRIAN SPELLMAN I dreamed of being special then awoke to be unique.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Perhaps this is why an institution is unlikely to feel or admit to shame; it may be unable to counte...
ELIZABETH SPELLMAN You can't have your cake and eat it too. Let them eat croissants.
BRIAN SPELLMAN There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Guards are the most important guys on the court. They have the ball in their hands 80 percent of the...
DAN SPELLMAN We need to keep them off the offensive boards and limit them to one attempt (on offense).
DAN SPELLMAN The success we've had this season is because they play so hard.
DAN SPELLMAN I'm really happy for the kids. They really wanted to beat these guys especially after last year.
DAN SPELLMAN I closed my eyes and I was praying.
DAN SPELLMAN The first quarter happened so fast. They were playing a box-and-one. They had us out of sync on offe...
DAN SPELLMAN We need to rely on our defense. We've won games that way and will continue. I hope they will respond...
DAN SPELLMAN I wish every game was like this. It's a great environment.
DAN SPELLMAN The memories he captured in a form of a tape is incredible.
DAN SPELLMAN My son, I don’t believe in God, prayer, afterlife or miracles. You may disagree with me on all of ...
BRIAN SPELLMAN The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Kindness knows no kind.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Swallowed my pride and shit lions.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Build the prisons and they will commit the crimes.
BRIAN SPELLMAN CMP is in the unique position to provide SOHO entrepreneurs with expertise that broadens to full-blo...
KATE SPELLMAN Our aim is to provide SOHO entrepreneurs with answers to the dozens of business questions that arise...
KATE SPELLMAN A bind is when you're quadriplegic, suicidal about that and unable to persuade your best friend to m...
BRIAN SPELLMAN I'm nostalgic for a better tomorrow.
BRIAN SPELLMAN A woman drove me to drink. I don't drink and drive.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Months after my wrists ripping, a talk therapist referred to the act as self-hatred. Until then nobo...
BRIAN SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN This war in Vietnam is, I believe, a war for civilization. Certainly it is not a war of our seeking....
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the o...
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN I'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.
RUTH REICHL The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new for...
RUTH BERNHARD My idea of management is that what your job is as the boss is to find really good people and empower...
RUTH REICHL Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television...
RUTH RENDELL Both my parents had strokes. My father had several, but the last one was fatal. It's a horribly ...
RUTH RENDELL If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruise...
RUTH PORAT I live in a beautiful part of British Columbia, and I run through the rainforest. I do have to look ...
RUTH OZEKI How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
BABE RUTH Paris ain't much of a town.
BABE RUTH Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.
BABE RUTH Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
BABE RUTH All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
BABE RUTH If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.
BABE RUTH I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand...
BABE RUTH Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that&#...
BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobac...
BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.
BABE RUTH Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
BABE RUTH Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?
BABE RUTH As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if ...
BABE RUTH Any independent bookstore that has managed to survive is the best place to do a reading.
RUTH OZEKI There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can b...
RUTH REICHL When you label someone 'up and coming' or 'the new breakout,' there's this kind ...
RUTH NEGGA You have not lived a perfect day... unless you have done something for someone who will never be abl...
RUTH SMELTZER All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imaginatio...
RUTH ROSS I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thi...
RUTH WILSON I love to make pies - pot pies, quiches, savory tarts, fruit pies. I use an old-fashioned pastry ble...
RUTH REICHL We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we fe...
RUTH RENDELL It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH We won't even attempt to achieve what we do not believe at a deep level we can have or deserve.
RUTH ROSS Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
RUTH GRAHAM A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
RUTH BEECHICK It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH To be somebody you must last.
RUTH GORDON The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
RUTH ROSS Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
RUTH HUBBARD Pregnant women! They had that weird frisson, an aura of magic that combined awkwardly with an earthy...
RUTH MORGAN Watch my dust.
BABE RUTH In this game, by trying to win; you automatically lose.
RUTH ROSS In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day...
RUTH BENEDICT To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people t...
RUTH GORDON Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their bre...
RUTH STOUT Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must tak...
RUTH BENEDICT No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs an...
RUTH BENEDICT If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves...
RUTH BENEDICT A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself active...
RUTH BENEDICT We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
RUTH BENEDICT Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
RUTH BENEDICT The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of th...
RUTH GORDON To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the...
RUTH HUBBARD The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions ...
RUTH HUBBARD The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ...
RUTH BENEDICT When people lose their ties to the land they grow corrupt. Inevitably, they grow corrupt.
RUTH ALMOG I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
BABE RUTH Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.
RUTH STOUT The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standa...
RUTH BENEDICT The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individua...
BABE RUTH In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'l...
RUTH REICHL Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
RUTH BENEDICT Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
RUTH GORDON The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.
RUTH PORAT A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
RUTH BROWN You can be a decent critic if you know about food, but to be a really good one, you need to know abo...
RUTH REICHL Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way th...
RUTH REICHL 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It...
RUTH RENDELL The way we live is changing. Each year, our free time shrinks a little more as computers clamor for ...
RUTH REICHL The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
RUTH RENDELL I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural tr...
RUTH OZEKI He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one...
RUTH PARK If you have caviar, the way to eat it is by the spoonful. Don't combine it with shrimp, pomegran...
RUTH REICHL If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag y...
RUTH GLICK I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec...
RUTH B I went down to my keyboard and was playing random chords, and the one line I kept repeating was, ...
RUTH B Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley ...
RUTH REICHL To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiou...
RUTH HARRIS I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
RUTH STOUT By the time I met Julia Child, her husband, Paul, was little more than a ghost of a man, so diminish...
RUTH REICHL Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I ...
RUTH OZEKI Hunger, I discovered, is very much a matter of the mind, and as I began to study my own appetites, I...
RUTH REICHL Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
RUTH NEGGA I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing ...
BABE RUTH You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
BABE RUTH I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
RUTH HANDLER Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ...
RUTH HANDLER Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bi...
BABE RUTH It's been invigorating being back on the West Coast, being at Alphabet, because there is so much...
RUTH PORAT The difficult thing for me is going to a event and having to be dressed up and being judged for what...
RUTH WILSON Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
RUTH REICHL The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
RUTH BENEDICT The American government policy on what we supported and subsidised in agriculture was a social exper...
RUTH REICHL The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make...
RUTH OZEKI The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on ...
RUTH BUZZI In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of peo...
RUTH HARRISON Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of ...
RUTH GORDON Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.
RUTH WILSON I did documentary film for a long time, and I spent a lot of time behind the camera, fervently wishi...
RUTH OZEKI If you really taste a doughnut, it's pretty disgusting. They taste of grease.
RUTH REICHL I don't make any notes, but I do know where to find things. Suppose I need to know where Wexford...
RUTH RENDELL They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
RUTH HANDLER My kitchen was built for my body. It forms a 'U' in the middle of the living room and dining...
RUTH REICHL Of course, to publish something, you have to write it, polish it, then hire out the line editing, co...
RUTH GLICK My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm l...
RUTH BUZZI In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers te...
RUTH RENDELL The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.
RUTH RENDELL I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective...
RUTH RENDELL One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of...
RUTH WARE I believe that for all of us, there was this one moment in our early life when we started being obse...
RUTH REINHARDT Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I...
RUTH NEGGA I felt like that was my calling. I just didn't know how I was going to get my voice out of Edmon...
RUTH B The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on beha...
RUTH BENEDICT Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.
RUTH GORDON Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
BABE RUTH It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up
BABE RUTH You have to have a talent for having talent.
RUTH GORDON In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.
RUTH GORDON Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, ...
RUTH HUBBARD How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball... The har...
BABE RUTH If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.
BABE RUTH Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
BABE RUTH Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
BABE RUTH I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout.
BABE RUTH All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it...
BABE RUTH Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.
BABE RUTH Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
BABE RUTH You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won...
RUTH RENDELL Walden Pond? You mean like Thoreau?
RUTH SAUNDERS M. F. K. Fisher was a wonder and a huge influence, and someone I got to know pretty well at the end ...
RUTH REICHL Firstly, I think that now there are many young female conductors, but as it takes at least thirty ye...
RUTH REINHARDT I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How ...
RUTH RENDELL I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal...
RUTH REICHL Liquidity is oxygen for a financial system.
RUTH PORAT I get up just before six and come downstairs, put food out for the cats, and open the cat flap. Then...
RUTH RENDELL Beth Garber did very well in the No. 2 spot. Jenny Christen, in the No. 6 spot and her first time on...
RUTH PINKERTON What does happen in 'Gourmet,' we had eight test kitchens, and at any given time, there were...
RUTH REICHL She's another Tina Turner is what I see,
RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; ...
RUTH BROWN Unfortunately, I'm a little concerned where the legends are coming from nowadays.
RUTH BROWN And, of course, I was singing cheap.
RUTH BROWN There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because o...
RUTH BROWN We're at the cutting edge. The purely oral approach is newer and experimental in that it's not happe...
RUTH HUBBARD In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're ...
RUTH NEGGA We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, th...
RUTH RENDELL People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called ...
RUTH OZEKI People are still being put into geriatric wards when they don't need it. They need treatment, no...
RUTH RENDELL My idea of good living is not about eating high on the hog. Rather, to me, good living means underst...
RUTH REICHL I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's n...
RUTH NEGGA