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«Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.»
Author: Anthony Powell
(Writer)
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«A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.»
«Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart- pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.»
Author: Edward G. Robinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
baseball card, Baseball players, big league, black lung, cheerfully, cigarette, Cobb, collector, collectors, Edward, Edward G. Robinson, Edward G, Indian, One Pound, Only Yesterday, pounding, Robinson, Ty Cobb, uncles, upstart
«Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.»
«I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.»
Author: Earl Weaver
| About:
Speech
| Keywords:
Brooks Robinson, frank, Frank and, Frank Robinson, Robinson
«When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. So was Ray Robinson. Ray Leonard. They got a man in trouble and they threw everything they had at him. Bring him down.»
Author: Mike Tyson
(Boxer)
| Keywords:
finisher, finishers, in trouble, Joe, Joe Louis, Leonard, ray, Ray Robinson, Robinson, threw
«After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is»
«Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress?»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Crusoe, Don, donning, Don Quixote, excepting, pilgrim, readers, Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, wished
«The baby is fine, the only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
Edward, Edward G. Robinson, Edward G, Robinson
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