Durham Quotes:

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

- Michelle Forbes

topic: Smart, Thinking, Durham

The rose goes on the front, big guy.

- Crash Davis

source: "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", 1988.

topic: Rose, Guy, Durham, Big Guys

I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

- John Darnielle

source: "The Mountain Goats". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. October 1, 2012.

topic: Cities In The World, Durham, Towns, Strangling

Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.

- Anne Stevenson

topic: Children, Usa, America, Durham

I believe in the soul ... the small of a woman's back, the hanging curveball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft-core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days.

- Kevin Costner

topic: Sweet, Morning, Believe, Curveballs, Opening Day Baseball

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. I've worshipped Buddha, Allah, Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, trees, mushrooms, and Isadora Duncan. I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I learned that, I gave Jesus a chance.

- Ron Shelton

source: "Fictional character: Annie Savoy". "Bull Durham", 1988.

topic: Baseball, Jesus, Believe, Vishnu, Duncan

I've tried them all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball.

- Susan Sarandon

topic: Baseball, Soul, Church, Durham, Best Baseball

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

- Susan Sarandon

topic: Baseball, Love Is, Making Love, Durham, Baseball Love

Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

- Crash Davis

topic: Mean, Winning, Thinking, Durham

I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains.

- Kevin Costner

source: "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", www.imdb.com. 1988.

topic: Money, Practice, White, Room Service, Durham

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

- Walt Whitman

topic: Sports, Baseball, Games, Baseball Games, Spring Training

I have been known on occasion to howl at the moon.

- Crash Davis

topic: Moon, Howl, Occasions, Durham

After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

- Crash Davis

source: "Fictional character: Crash Davis". "Bull Durham", 1988.

topic: Believe, Heart, Years, Matters Of The Heart, Durham

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

- Garth Brooks

topic: Fun, Roles, Bulls, Durham

When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services.

- Andre Leon Talley

source: "On The Little Black Dress" by Andre Leon Talley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2013.

topic: Beautiful, Growing Up, Sunday, Carolina, Durham

We really are 15 countries, and it's remarkable that each of us thinks we represent the real America. The Midwesterner in Kansas, the black American in Durham - both are certain they are the real American.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Country, Real, Thinking, Durham, Midwesterners

I imagined that being someday in pro ball I would have been Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. If I had never discovered acting, I literally would have been that guy.

- Tyler Hoechlin

source: Source: www.empireonline.com

topic: Durham

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people.

- Jamie Farr

topic: Orlando, Durham, Raleigh

Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 Be not afraid to pray... to pray is right. Pray if thou canst with hope; but ever pray Though hope be weak, or sick with long delay. Whatever is good to wish, ask that of heaven; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

- Hartley Coleridge

topic: Teacher, Long, Sick, Durham, Commemoration

I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.

- Michelle Forbes

topic: New York, Talking, Years, Durham, Doctors And Patients

Everyone always wants to talk about 'True Blood' and 'Battlestar Galactica' - no one's even interested in 'Durham County.' It blew my mind when I came to Canada and no one asked me about the show. So many people didn't even know about it. They didn't even know it was on the air! It's very curious to me.

- Michelle Forbes

topic: Blood, Air, People, Durham, Battlestar Galactica

At one point I had a stretch where it was working on 'In Treatment,' then 'True Blood,' then 'Durham County,' then 'True Blood,' then 'In Treatment' again. If I didn't have that little dose of 'True Blood' in the middle, I might have lost my mind.

- Michelle Forbes

topic: Blood, Mind, Littles, Lost My Mind, Durham

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Grandmother, Orange, Doors, Orange County, Durham

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

- James Taylor

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Father, Real, Nice, Carolina, Durham

And as for other men, who worked in tank-rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting,-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out into the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard! This contributed to the passing of the Pure Food Act of 1906.

- Upton Sinclair

topic: Men, Law, Would Be, Lard, Durham