Pee Wee Reese Quotes

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say.

I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.

When you talk of being humble, Gurdas Maan is the most humble person. He has a very pure nature.

When other teams fear you, that's a big difference.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

I'm sure I shall always feel like a child in the wood.

I don't know. I've never been on second before.

Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires to be honored at all. He allows you to know them but not to comprehend them. No one must know the extent of his abilities, lest he be disappointed. No one ever has an opportunity of fathoming him entirely. For guesses and doubts about the extent of his talents arouse more veneration than accurate knowledge of them, be they ever so great.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

I don't know (if they were men or women running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.

People might get mad for five or ten minutes, but then they respect you more. And the next time they see you, they'll tell their friends, "Don't go up to him with that stuff - he don't mess with cocaine."

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda.

You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.