The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game. – Chuck Tanner, quoted in The Sporting News, 15 July 1985
Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is The X Factor. Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work. – Iain Duncan Smith
Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. Hes the most easygoing, lovely man, but hes got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity. – Christine Baranski
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. – Umberto Eco
