Quotes for All
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’ Ernie Harwell
As a small child me and my pals fantasised about one day owning an ice-cream van. To have ice creams on demand would have been a dream come true. Erin O’Connor
Someone asked me if I would like to write a man on death row, be a pen pal, and I was like, sure. I volunteered. I had been in a place in my life – a relationship had ended; my parents were getting elderly – I was kind of adrift. The name that was given … Read more
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. Ed O’Neill
When the word began to get out, the idea of tying imitations of aquatic worms was not met with universal approval in the fly-fishing community. It seems that worms had somehow gotten a bad name. I think a fishing pal of mine hit it on the head when he said, It just pisses them off … Read more
When you get to a certain age, you don’t get lost. If you have a good set of pals around about you can have a great life. Ford Kiernan
The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as “Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as “a … Read more
People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don’t want to know nothing about you! Don Johnson
Lennon’s was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal’s dad’s living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to … Read more
The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, ‘I’m swimming in a vortex of apathy.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ I don’t walk up to a friend and go ‘That’s a stylin’ looking vortex of apathy you’ve got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.’ … Read more