Grand Slam Prize

Famous quotes containing the words grand, slam and/or prize:

    “One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “to slam the door on all the days she’ll stay the same
    and never ask why and never think who to ask,
    to slam the door and rip off her orange blouse.
    Father, father, I wish I were dead.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
    From mine own library with volumes that
    I prize above my dukedom.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)