Even Quote by David Grann Download Open image “Base stealers are often considered their own breed: reckless, egocentric, even a touch mad.” — David Grann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Even Mad Own Reckless Touch
I think stolen bases are always a byproduct of doing other things well. Getting on base - you've got to get on base a… — Trea Turner Copy Share Image
Base stealing for me is another sport all by itself. It's a game within a game. I'm the mouse and the cats are trying… — Maury Wills Copy Share Image
A good base stealer should make the whole infield jumpy. Whether you steal or not, you're changing the rhythm of the game. If the… — Joe Morgan Copy Share Image
Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than… — Carl Crawford Copy Share Image
It's true that the man stealer is always lurking around the corner it's just our job and your duty to make sure they back… — Gabrielle Dennis Copy Share Image
Stealing bases was put to me almost as a prerequisite for staying in the game. They didn't give me a handbook on how to… — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively. — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
“To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Over the next two decades, the Osage were forced to cede nearly a hundred million acres of their ancestral land, ultimately finding refuge in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Emmett White became a firm, even unyielding, sheriff. Still, he showed remarkable consideration toward the people in his custody and insisted on making arrests… — David Grann Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't need much sleep. At any hour of the night, you'd wake up, and she'd be reading. She'd read five, six books… — David Grann Copy Share Image
The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering. — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Fawcett, who had always found refuge in the natural world, no longer recognized the wilderness of bombed-out villages, denuded trees, craters, and sunbaked skeletons.… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world? - Lope de Aguirre after going mad in… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“In 1804, a delegation of Osage chiefs met with Jefferson at the White House. He told the navy secretary that the Osage, whose warriors… — David Grann Copy Share Image
“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.” — David Grann Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area's almost comically… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
If you're a top 10 guy you should pay a top 10 guy or even a top 5 guy what he deserves, whether it's… — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
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Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!' — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I love writing fiction and can do it anywhere - I once even missed a flight because I was so engrossed. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
I really can't live without my In-N-Out burgers. Honestly, I can't. Even when I'm doing the whole no-carb thing occasionally, I make an exception… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent of the things that come out of my mouth are intended to be harmless or even charming. They're not ever intended to… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich. — Fabiola Gianotti Copy Share Image