The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches. -Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24
Robert R. Mitchell
Related Yes, Pete was about junior-high age and always around. He would come to practice and he was a wise g... NICK MILASNOVICH It was a phony call. He said he was thinking about shooting himself after he told us he had shot his... MAJ. CARLOS RAINES I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it, MIKE HOLMGREN Jimmy's game got very good because he was a small player like the rest of us, but then he shot up to... BILL FOLEY He was funny, but he was a good student, too. He talked about college and his plans for him and Sunn... JEFF COLE I knew he was real smart as a kid but this is like.. he really did good! KATHY GARDNER I miss that feeling of connection. Knowing he was out there somewhere thinking about me at the ... RANATA SUZUKI Huh,” said Kit, thinking of the Cold Peace. “Are you a prisoner?” “No,” said the faer... CASSANDRA CLARE He was really good. He was in control of the game all night long. You really can't say enough good t... BRIAN BUCHANAN You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us? RICHELLE MEAD He was very despondent, upset during the conversation. At times, he talked of suicide. He also talke... DON AARON My father was not only a planetary scientist and a great popularizer of science, but he thought very... NICK SAGAN And infatuated be damned. He was near to being blinded by his attraction to her. He was in love, dam... MARY BALOGH There was one kid, he said he watched us the last couple of years and he really went into depth abou... LEWIS THORPE I thought it was a smart idea. [Wine] was even thinking of just flipping the whole lineup. He was ju... LANCE THOMPSON It was huge for James because whoever was winning, it was a huge disadvantage. If you are up a set, ... BRIAN BARKER He was a smart guy, no doubt about it. He didn't always use his head for the right things, but he wa... BRUCE NORRIS We met with him for two hours, and we talked about everything. He seldom laughed, that was one thing... TOMMY LASORDA He was real enthusiastic. He talked about getting a new job. MARK KANTOR He was a very caring father. All he talked about is his baby. I'm just so sorry. They are very good ... LINDA GREEN He showed some areas and talked about specific areas he felt were changed, but I'm not sure he was a... BILL LUSHER I called him Kenny Mayne. He was kind of ticked about that, so no way was he putting The Duck on his... DENNIS BONIFER Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He t... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ In a way he was lucky. He was a member of a generation that thought it was a good, even joyous,... GRACE PALEY They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousn... JOHN STEINBECK Minutes before he got shot in temple, he told me he wanted to buy concert tickets for a congregant b... STEPHEN KATZ It was nice to see the president out there supporting us, ... It was a good speech, he talked a lot ... ANDREW HILL He was a good people reader, and Murphy was smart. He knew the tricks of the trade. MARSHALL CARLISLE He told me he was truly sorry. We talked for about 20 minutes, just us. It was weird how he just hel... LARRY RODRIGUEZ Scott was disappointed as he was 19th and just missed performing another list. We have talked all ye... JEFF SHAFFER There was a man and he had eight sons. Apart from that, he was nothing more than a comma on the page... TERRY PRATCHETT We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n... JOE WHITE I thought it was his arm, I didn't know his face was in the way. When I walked over there, he wasn't... BRANDON CLAUSSEN All he wanted was a game of football and he approached us about having a run in the lower grades, FRANK ELLIS He talked to me a lot about problems he was having. Sometimes he was just depressed. He hated Hollyw... FRANK MINUCCI He was very smart and he was very passionately committed to the causes he believed in. He was always... GEORGINE GETTY He was probably our most bummed out kid because we came so close to playing for a sectional title. W... BRIAN HUTTON But then he reminded us that there was only one guy who was on the right side both times. Him. BRIAN SHAW In our darkest hour, he was a ray of hope, a voice of reassurance to millions, ... He made us all pr... MICHAEL BLOOMBERG He was erudite, tough — a classic journalist. When he talked about something, you knew he knew the... LARRY KING He was erudite, tough a classic journalist. When he talked about something, you knew he knew the ... LARRY KING By far, he was the mascot that was talked about the most. GLEN GULUTZAN Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol. JOE SCHWARZER Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol, JOE SCHWARZER But Tom was not thinking about magic or struggle or the rest of his journey. He was enjo... MIKE CAREY Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ... REBECCA MCNUTT I was reading a lot of Jacques Derrida at the time, writing 'Beth.' He actually talked about... JEFF BAENA This is something he was thinking about even before he was in that situation, CINDY CAMPBELL He got holes in his chest. He was shot all up. He was laying on the ground. He was shot up bad. KERRY HUMPHREY He was a pleasant surprise last year. They said his bat was not that good, and he did an outstanding... CHARLIE MONTOYO Just the way he looked at you, just the way he talked to you was scary. BOB PECORARO Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many ... THOMAS HARDY My blood was boiling, which is not a good thing for a coldblood. Dracula was dead. Rex was dyin... PATRICK JENNINGS He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in... FRANCESCO BONAMI He was the only kid that could make a shot. I was begging the guys, 'Give Sean shots.' It was hard t... MARK TURGEON He seemed like everything was going good. I know we talked about when I turned 18, him moving out an... JACKIE BOOTS He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously ... STEPHEN KING He was very outspoken and talked about the kind of sacrifices he was willing to make for the team to... JIM CALHOUN I was reminded all over again of how powerful and passionate he was in his beliefs about integrity a... RICHARD BLUMENTHAL He was a good kid, and he had a great future in front of him. LINDA GREEN (About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give... TERRY PRATCHETT After the shot he was behind me, but just before the shot he was interfering with me. I couldn't mov... HENRIK LUNDQVIST He talked very openly and freely about a neighborhood boy he was having sex with. BRAD COOPER The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER We talked a lot about mechanics. Being tall, when something mechanical can go wrong, it goes wrong i... MATT THORNTON He was a lot calmer and sure of himself. Ann Coulter is an extremist, and she would not even look at... JOE GIBBS Probably one of my darkest days through the whole ordeal was to see how they talked about Spin, who ... LLOYD MCCLENDON He was well-versed about the issues we talked about - health care costs, regulatory costs and things... DAVID HUETHER He's a great kid and he wants to learn. The surprising thing about being a basketball player is we t... BOBBY WALLACE He was really nice. He was like, 97, when he died. He was also a good golfer. He had eye cancer for ... ANDREW KRIEG I was the last person he talked to other than the SWAT guy. I've been thinking about that the whole ... MAURICE COTEY Tim was very solid all night. The neat thing about it was he was very consistent all game. He scored... DREW DIPIPPO I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. Somethi... RANSOM RIGGS Hal talked about Scott's last two pinch-hitting appearances [before the homer] and the fact that he ... TONY LA RUSSA Robert Richards brought all the supplies and explained everything to the kids. He was very jazzed ab... CINDY CARDER Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway... JANE BIRKIN He's a kid who has worked hard all year. He questioned at times why he wasn't playing enough, but he... DAVE WOJCIECHOWSKI I talked to him [Friday] and he was great as far as when he was playing long-toss. I feel better abo... JOE TORRE Peter was good with the media. He gave interviews, he talked about stocks with intensity, people lik... ERIC KOBREN But that was the general view of the times, north and south, ... He was not unusual in that view. Th... BRUCE TYLER That's one of the only times I've seen Dano get nervous. You could see he was on edge. He was like a... TOMMY ALBELIN He wasn't real sure about it all but thought it was something to take a good look at. SCOT MCFARLANE We were on the bus coming home from the Framingham Tournament (last Wednesday) and we started talkin... ALAN ROTATORI Tracy was a good kid. He was doing a lot of things positive. He turned his life around. CLARA WARD I was kind of hoping he was going to make a move. At the last second I saw he was going low blocker.... ANTERO NIITTYMAKI Cole was our biggest cheerleader. That was good to see. He wasn't on the bench sulking and feeling s... JEFF EVENS Terrance was, first of all, just a great kid who always did the right thing. But also, as good a pla... NICK ALIOTTI Mayer was here privately as a spectator and he visited the boys. Of course, they will have talked a ... ERICH WAGNER When he was farming, he really didn't get to go on a lot of vacations with us because he had to work... BONNIE BUCHHOLZ Oh I bet you’re sweet as under all that posh.’ And he looked at her in a way that left her... AMY ANDREWS When your defense is count nine of the indictment, you're in trouble. He was a kid who believed in w... JAMES BROSNAHAN Kylah grabbed a handful of grapes off the tray and started tossing them at Aerric. He tried to catch... BRYNN MYERS If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER I communicated with him regularly on e-mail. He was always upbeat about the war and believed in what... BOB MARIANO It was pretty cool. He talked about growing up in this state and playing at Central Arkansas. He mos... LUKE ALLEN That was the biggest shot of the game. That was a big momentum stopper there. He hit a couple of tho... TERRY YOUNGBAUER Josh was not up to par. He had a double-whammy. He played about 60 percent of the game I suppose, an... KENTON COMSTOCK It became evident to us that he really didn't care about the people he had in the truck with him. He... DETECTIVE SCOTT COODY We saw his name on a house we liked. We liked that he seemed to know a lot about native plants, but ... CLIFF MOSES I think David is at peace with his own game now. He was too worried about himself and worried about ... BOB HURLEY
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In the meantime I was liste... JONI MITCHELL I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with resp... JONI MITCHELL I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want peop... JONI MITCHELL My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to ... JONI MITCHELL I learned a woman is never an old woman. JONI MITCHELL We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in ... JONI MITCHELL My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn... JONI MITCHELL I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords. JONI MITCHELL America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely ment... JONI MITCHELL I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. JONI MITCHELL I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy. JONI MITCHELL I thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotio... JONI MITCHELL This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the free... JONI MITCHELL My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew a... JONI MITCHELL I see music as fluid architecture. JONI MITCHELL You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still... JONI MITCHELL My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. JONI MITCHELL Media and technology are our greatest assets. And yet, they are our most undervalued and underused a... PAT MITCHELL I spend a lot of time on college campuses, a lot of time mentoring young women in all sectors of bus... PAT MITCHELL TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important i... PAT MITCHELL I think journalists and filmmakers are keen observers. And actors must also be sharp observers as th... PAT MITCHELL Investing in women and girls may once have been considered a radical notion or even a waste of resou... PAT MITCHELL TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everyth... PAT MITCHELL I'll never turn down a red velvet cupcake. SHAY MITCHELL I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't. MAIA MITCHELL If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority. MAIA MITCHELL I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my per... MAIA MITCHELL It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be l... MAIA MITCHELL If I'm in work mode and going to meetings, I'll make an effort and dress up, but when I'... MAIA MITCHELL Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no w... MARGARET MITCHELL It was better to know the worst than to wonder. MARGARET MITCHELL My dear, I don't give a damn. MARGARET MITCHELL Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you... MARGARET MITCHELL Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them. MARGARET MITCHELL Buddy Holly and the early rock 'n' roll was no lighter than the way I play. It's very mi... JONI MITCHELL At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting... JONI MITCHELL No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '... ELVIS MITCHELL I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so fo... EDGAR MITCHELL We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on th... EDGAR MITCHELL At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik ... EDGAR MITCHELL Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful abou... EDGAR MITCHELL My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my h... EDGAR MITCHELL We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet som... EDGAR MITCHELL I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is materi... EDGAR MITCHELL