Bill Veeck Quotes

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

The golden age of Luncheon Vouchers ended ten yearsago. For ten years Mickey had been saying, "The goldenage of Luncheon Vouchers is over." And that's what Archieloved about O'Connell's. Everything was remembered,nothing was lost. History was never revised orreinterpreted, adapted or whitewashed. It was as solid andas simple as the encrusted egg on the clock.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

I am the type of guy that has always been the same all of my life. My classmates at our class reunion always say the same thing. They could not believe that, being a world artist, I still seem like I was when we were at school together.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

This is a Disney animated feature; it's eternal, it's history. What's there to think about'

I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.

If something is good, it's always good. You don't have to change it.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

I miss the simplicity of college, with specific due dates, a consistent schedule, and a solid routine.

I am very normal, and I keep all the things that I have since many years ago.

Football is football. I've been playing the same game for 25 years.

At the end of the day, it is hockey. It's the same game, the rules don't change. It's the same hockey game I've been playing since I was 2 years old. I think you can kind of rely on that.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

I'm a simple man; I like to stick to what I know.

I always miss any kind of constant, especially now that I'm a film-maker who travels all the time. I'm always tempted to go to Catholic churches, although I despise the religion. But you want to go there just because it's the one thing in your life that's never changed.

I'm old-school.

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

Some things will never change.

Now Momma's done away with the old black kettle she used to cook in when I was just littleAnd the door ain't sprung on her electric rangeThat little old farm and home we had it ain't there no more and that's too badFolks are doing away with the simple things.