Umpires Quotes - Page 10

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Sometimes you've just got to let an umpire know that you're not satisfied with his decision. That they've missed the play in your opinion. Not that it's going to do you any good, but you've got to let them know.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish.

A good umpire, like a good FBI agent, is never noticed if he is doing his job.

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

It's an ongoing process of reinterpreting the strike zone in accordance to the rulebook. The umpires, I think, are doing an excellent job of bringing the outside pitch in closer to the plate. But I still think we have a lot of work to do with the low end of the strike zone.

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?

The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

I get what I desire, it's my empire And yes I call the shots, I am the umpire

Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

She'll be evaluated like any other Double-A umpire. Major League Baseball has never attempted to influence our decision

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts.

I didn't know a damn thing about style.

Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.

I followed the war wherever I could reach it.