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“I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.”

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Sadaharu Oh

Sadaharu Oh, born on May 20, 1940, is a renowned Japanese professional baseball player. He served as a pitcher in the Japanese Professional Baseball League, known for his exceptional pitching skills and long career. more

“Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.”

Should Littles Used Saws Mankind Strange Species Various Dust Substance Mushrooms Seasoning Condiments

Author:William Alcott

“Not being ambitious of martyrdom, even in the cause of gastronomical enterprise, especially if the instrument is to be a contemptible, rank-smelling fungus, I never eat or cook mushrooms.”

Ifs Causes Instruments Cooks Enterprise Ambitious Mushrooms Martyrdom Fungi

Author:Mary Virginia Terhune

“Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms, to whatever sauces our Apiciuses put them, they are not really good but to be sent back to the dungheap where they are born.”

Giving Born Dressings Sauce Mushrooms

Author:Denis Diderot

“I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.”

Party Rays Mushrooms Moles Rumble Grunt Mime

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and I could mention, too, the market stalls of mushrooms and garlic bugs all engorged. Or I even think of the orchard next door, where the berries are done and the apples are beginning to swell. And once, with our first backyard,I remember I planted an acre of yellow beans we couldn't eat.”

Thinking World Firsts Done Lasts Remember Next Sides Saws Doors Months Summer Apples Maps Yellow Globes Desks Bugs Beans Lemons Mushrooms Backyards Berries Acres Orchard Miniatures Garlic

Author:Anne Sexton

“Listen, boy, just ask the chef to make me a proper Full English Breakfast. You know, bacon, fried eggs, sausages, liver, grilled mushrooms and tomatoes, black pudding, kidneys, baked beans, fried bread, toast and served with strong English mustard, mind - none of this effete French muck - and a large mug of hot, strong Indian tea.”

Knows Mind Asks Strong Black Boys Hot Bread Tea Indian Eggs Breakfast Chef Beans Toasts Liver Mushrooms Tomatoes Sausage Kidneys Pudding Mustard Mug Baked Beans

Author:Bryan Talbot

“I'm a vegetarian who doesn't like eggplant parmesan. Isn't that awful? I'm also sick of portobello mushrooms. People are like,"A vegetarian's coming to dinner," so they serve those.”

People Sick Dinner Awful Vegetarian Mushrooms So Sick Eggplant

Author:Candy Crowley

“TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.”

Children Fall House Grows Process Growing Up Clothes Clean Autumn Plastic Toys Carpet Unfolding Seeming Ecosystems Mushrooms Autumn Leaves

Book:Joy For Beginners

Source: Joy For Beginners

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