Balls Quotes - Page 15

• Next time you see a yardful of sprouting dandelions, note that they look remarkably like things we call "flowers." And later, when the flowers turn into fluff balls, look closely at one of those fluff balls and ask yourself whether it's really so unattractive.

  Robert Wright

  Nature, Flower, Looks

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• If in a city we had six vacant lots available to the youngsters of a certain neighborhood for playing ball, it might be "development" to build houses on the first, and the second, and the third, and the fourth, and even the fifth, but when we build houses on the last one, we forget what houses are for.

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Cities, House

  Aldo Leopold, David Earl Brown, Neil B. Carmony (1995). “Aldo Leopold's Southwest”, p.159, UNM Press

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• You're turned in to the biggest balls of them all, DJ Suk T Nutts.

  Snoop Dogg

  Art, Media, Entertainment

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• Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

  Ice Cube

  Wall, Drinking, Eight

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• DOCTOR. Always preceded by 'The good'. Among men, in familiar conversation, 'Oh! balls, doctor!' Is a wizard when he enjoys your confidence, a jack-ass when you're no longer on terms. All are materialists: 'you can't probe for faith with a scalpel.'

  Gustave Flaubert

  Science, Men, Doctors

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Poetry, Storm

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I'm proud to be an Oakie from Muskogee, a place where even squares can have a ball. We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse and white lightning's still the biggest thrill of all.

  Merle Haggard

  Squares, Old Glory, White

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• In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Hands, Games

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• Keep your eye on the ball.

  Ford Frick

  Eye, Brazil, Princess Diaries

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• I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

  Fred Frith

  Football, Laughing So Hard, France

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• Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.

  Peter Guber

  Mom, Dad, Games

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• Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

  Dante Hall

  Embarrassed

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• And I don't really like golf. I know a lot of English footballers play, but I know that if I go with the club to play, sooner or later I will end up trying to smash the ball with my foot.

  Thierry Henry

  Golf, Play, Feet

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• During the first couple of years of 'Dancing with the Stars,' I would go to Jack in the Box in my ball gown after the shows and get the Taco Nachos with cheese as my reward.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Stars, Couple, Years

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• It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.

  Abdallah II

  Responsibility, Years, Prophet Muhammad

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• You know, I was crap. But I had the commitment, and I had the understanding, that the basis of football is skill on the ball, and if you spend the time with it, you're gonna reap the rewards.

  Craig Johnston

  Football, Commitment, Skills

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• My balls feel like a pair of maracas.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, Pairs, Feels

  Song: Why Does It Hurt When I Pee ?

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• We're out playing ball in the gym, I put boogers on the basketball and pass it to him.

  Biz Markie

  Basketball, Revenge, Retribution

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• You must respect people and work hard to be in shape. And I used to train very hard. When the others players went to the beach after training, I was there kicking the ball.

  Pele

  Beach, Hard Work, Player

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• When you part your lips that way, I want you night and day. When you squeeze my balls so tight, I wanna blow my load with all my might.

  Red Peters

  Sex, Blow, Night

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• I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

  Jerry Reed

  Mirrors, Hair, Gowns

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• If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.

  Charles Sheffield

  Couple, Reading, Believe

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• I don't really have time to watch too much, but I like 'Family Guy' and 'Entourage.' I'm also obsessed with the YouTube series 'Balls of Steel.' It's hilarious.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Family Guy, Too Much, Watches

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• When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

  Method Man

  Kids, Hands, Champagne

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• I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.

  David Ortiz

  People, Guy, Looks

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