Baseball Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Baseball Italian Opera Sensible
“Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.” — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not German, I beg your majesty. Italian is the proper language for opera. All educated people agree on that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching… — John Eaton Copy Share Image
As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed… — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Opera is a key way of talking about life and all the things that are important to people in life. — Mark Getty Copy Share Image
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Musical theater tends to be word-driven, whereas opera gives you so much more scope for driving the story with the music. — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. — Sammy Sosa Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
Pitchers pitch differently. Hitters, hardly anyone has the same stance. That's just how it is. — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
Five World Series rings, 3000-plus hits, the fame, the fortune and playing for the second most historic franchise in baseball... These are just some… — Mookie Betts Copy Share Image
I don't want the electronic strike zone. I like the element of sometimes pitches don't get called. Guys don't receive it well or whatever… — Kyle Schwarber Copy Share Image
I sang the National Anthem at Dodger Stadium - at a baseball game - which was crazy; there was, like, 60,000 people there, which… — Adam DeVine Copy Share Image
If I was going to make one rule change, I would bring the DH to the National League. — George Brett Copy Share Image
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just… — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy… — Harry Caray Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
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