Balls Quotes - Page 13

• The fact of the matter is this: Austin can take his ball, and go home. But as far as The Rock is concerned, as far as I'm concerned, this is home.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Home, Rocks, Wwe

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• ... there's been a lot of balls that have been pounding in that end zone.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Ends, Has Beens

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• I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

  Robert Osborne

  Party, Successful, Dining

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• If you go to the ball game, you don't need to read the game story.

  Jim Lehrer

  Games, Needs, Stories

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• Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.

  Eric Heiden

  Baseball, Athlete, Golf

  "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

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• Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.

  Walker Percy

  People, United States, Serious

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Giving, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.148

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• I could play ball all day. That's all I want to do.

  Stephon Marbury

  Play, Want

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• The word is a bouncing ball The ruler throws from his balcony. The word has been a shot of morphine. Rulers calm their people with speeches.

  Nizar Qabbani

  People, Speech, Calm

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• The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

  Berenice Abbott

  Cities, Challenges, Portraits

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft that's 5000 millimeters off fitting properly, and two bad ball-bearings, and still runs. We're in that kind of situation. We can have substantial parts of the population committing suicide, and still run and look fairly good.

  Thomas McGuane

  Suicide, Running, Two

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• One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Moon, Air

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.724, Best Books on

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• Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think.

  Roald Hoffmann

  Men, Thinking, Molecules

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• My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Impact, Intuition, May

  "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.

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• For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Baby, Jobs, Moving

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• I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

  Elijah Wood

  Stars, Gas

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• You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

  Dwight Gooden

  Hands, Want, Command

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• I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

  Billy Collins

  Notebook, Writing, Doors

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• Since a month, two months ago, you know, I've started hitting the ball well. I'm playing some really good tennis. That really helps. I sort of have to motivate myself to get pumped up. It really helps my game a lot.

  Stefan Edberg

  Sports, Games, Two

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• The putter looks like a bunch of nuts and bolts welded together, but the ball goes in the hole.

  Julius Boros

  Golf, Nuts, Together

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• We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, School, Unique

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• Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

  Gus Van Sant

  People, Helping, Sometimes

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 5, 2003.

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• In general I like a guy who is athletic, somebody who can teach me something. Whether it's teaching me a new way to cut on a wave or teach me a three-point conversion or teach me how to dribble a soccer ball. There's something really cool about that.

  Aimee Teegarden

  Soccer, Teaching, Cutting

  "Beautiful Wave Star Aimee Teegarden Talks Surfer Boys And More!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

  Whitney Cummings

  Relationship, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. September 15, 2011.

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