Billy Beane: You're doing it again. Casey Beane: What? Billy Beane: You're worrying about me. Casey Beane: You're in last place dad. Billy Beane: Do I look worried? Casey Beane: Yeah. Billy Beane: Cause you're getting on an airplane. Those things cra...
I like beans. Lentils are beans, right? I love beans and rice.
There had been a problem in Bean's house. The problem was staples. Bean loved staples. She loved them so much that she had stapled things that weren't supposed to be stapled. The things looked better stapled, but her mother didn't think so, and now B...
Billy Beane: We want you to play 1st base for the Oakland A's. Scott Hatteberg: OK, well, I've only ever played catcher. Billy Beane: Scott, you're not a catcher any more. If you were our call wouldn't be the only one you got when your contract expir...
Billy Beane: Where you from, Pete? Peter Brand: Maryland. Billy Beane: Where'd you go to school? Peter Brand: Yale. I went to Yale. Billy Beane: What'd you study? Peter Brand: Economics. I studied economics. Billy Beane: Yale, economics, and baseball...
Peter Brand: [Sleeping. His phone rings, waking him up] Hello? Billy Beane: Pete? It's Billy Beane. Peter Brand: Wh-what time is it? Billy Beane: I don't know. Pete, would you have drafted me in the first round? Peter Brand: What? Billy Beane: After ...
You spill a lot of beans in historical fiction. Crime fiction is about spilling no beans at all. You spill the least beans you possibly can. So because I had already written historical fiction before I was really good at the spilling beans section, b...
Peter Brand: I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do. Billy Beane: I asked you to do three. Peter Brand: Yeah. Billy Beane: To evaluate three players. Peter Brand: Yeah. Billy Beane: How many you'd do? Peter Brand: Forty-...
A bean in liberty is better than a comfit in prison.
Hit him with a bean, he will break.
Billy Beane: I want Dye in right, Justice DHing, Peña on the bench, Hatteberg at first, and anyone but Mags first out of the pen. Art Howe: You want Peña on the bench? Billy Beane: That's right. So you can play Hatty. Art Howe: Peña is not only th...
If it ran, a Bean would shoot it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
If it ran, a Bean would eat it. If it fell, a Bean would eat it.
I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.
[Howard eats, while Dobbs and Curtin snooze] Howard: Hey you fellas, how 'bout some beans? You want some beans? Goin' through some mighty rough country tomorrow, you'd better have some beans.
I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceil...
Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to me and I’ll do it, if I can. You don’t have to do this alone. Only even as he thought this, Bean knew it wasn’t true. If it could be done, Ender ...
It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst. They shrivel and die, they go blind in their one black eye, and I put them in one of these tiny coffins. Beans, you know, are b...
There is nowhere morning does not go.
The building is a tumbling house of cards behind me. The bus bitches are paper cutouts.
