Oates Quotes

You read a letter like this and you get to sleep for a couple hours. It makes you feel good. That's the whole point. It makes you feel good. - Kevin Coates

You only get strikes in the areas where it still looks like the old economy, not the new. - David Coates

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat. - John Oates

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's. - Adam Oates

You can't put 23 people on base and expect to win the game. You can't make six physical mistakes. - Dave Moates

You are doing 16 hours a day and trying to catch sleep when you can, and then you get a card like this. I carried this card with me, and it is going to stay with me. - Kevin Coates

Years later, I was in Baltimore one day and I talked to (then-manager) Johnny Oates. He said, 'You changed the game. You created the ninth-inning pitcher.' I said, 'It was the managers who did it. They started holding back their best relief pitchers to get saves.' - Jerome Holtzman

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we are. - Joyce Carol Oates

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane. - Joyce Carol Oates

When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. - Joyce Carol Oates