Quotes for All
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run. Andrew Tobias
The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore Andrew Sullivan
Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.’s life is priceless. Don’t believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier’s life: I’ve been handed the check. It’s roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month. Andrew Bacevich
I’d say any good set or any comedy that I’ve worked on, that’s worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, ‘What if you say this? What about this?’ Amy Poehler
Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist. Alvin Dark
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they’re being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been designed, as that’s always done during a project’s pitching stage. Rhianna Pratchett
You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me. Reba McEntire
There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it’s mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they’re usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except … Read more
In 2002 Mom and I got a chance to act together in a play called ‘Pitching to the Star,’ with her brother, Robert Lipton. The three of us on the same stage – that was such a special experience for me. Rashida Jones
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
A. J. Liebling