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After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Mickey Mantle

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.
Henry Rollins

After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
Henry Rollins

Black, Left, Band

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
Graham Nash

Three, Left, Guys

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.
Frederic Chopin

Art, Simplicity, Played

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.
John D. Rockefeller

Life, Great, School

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
W. Somerset Maugham

Long, Baby, Era

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.
Alice Walker

United, Attack, Terrorists

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Again, Sure

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis

Listening, Quit, Six

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry, Seems, Quit

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
John Maynard Keynes

Success, War, Beautiful

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan P. Smith

Life, Enjoy, Two

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
William Hazlitt

Living, Poor, Dead

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Children, Thought

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
Marilyn Manson

Time, Death, Live

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper

Character, Nothing, Try

After all, tomorrow is another day.
Margaret Mitchell

Tomorrow, Another

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Marriage, Morning

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
Joseph Brodsky

Life, Work, Fake

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Truth, Light, Rarely

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

Life, Happiness, Happy

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Wilson Mizner

Good, While, Knows

Events are called inevitable only after they have occurred.
Mason Cooley

Events, Inevitable, Occurred

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie

Book, Days, Sure

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
Barbara Hershey

Love, Soul, Found

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
Giacomo Casanova

Love, Real, Sometimes

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos

Win, Lose, Election

A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
Gloria Steinem

Marriage, Sex, Job

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.
Helen Rowland

Life, Marriage, Down

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