Bowls Quotes - Page 24

• I dont know what to bowl at him. I bowled an inswinger and he drove me through covers of the front foot. Then I bowled an outswinger and he again punched through covers of the backfoot. He is the toughest batsmen I've bowled to. He shold live long and score lots of runs, but not against Pakistan.

  Wasim Akram

  Running, Feet, Long

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• The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

  John Madden

  Sports, House, Down And

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• No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

  Roger Kahn

  Party, Events, Three

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• CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.

  Mike Rogers

  Television, Super Bowl, Lows

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• “You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”

  Robin Roberts

  Sports, Shapes, Cocktails

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• When you bowl at him you are not just trying to get him out, you are trying to impress him. "I want him to walk off thinking 'that Flintoff, he's all right isn't he?" I feel privileged to have played against him.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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• The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once.

  Robin McKinley

  Light, Water, Rose

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• I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Rain, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

  Lynsay Sands

  Popcorn, Huge

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• Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie’s head so hard that – with an earsplitting bang – it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Powerful, Feet, Bangs

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Sea, Missing, Missed You

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.141, Feiwel & Friends

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• Yet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Spy, Done, World

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• Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

  Will McDonough

  Games, Creating, World

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• I've been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I've been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.

  Will McDonough

  Fighting, Heavyweights, World

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• I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

  Randy Jackson

  Thinking, Numbers, Super Bowl

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• I'm through with Tolstoy. He has ceased to exist for me.... If I eat a bowl of soup and like it, I know by that fact alone and with absolute certainty that Tolstoy will find it bad, and vice versa.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Vices, Soup, Facts

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• Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

  George Allen

  Morning, Next, Losing

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• The Super Bowl is really exciting. The parties are always fun. The whole thing is a big party.

  Fran Drescher

  Fun, Party, Super Bowl

  "Passion for the Game: Fran Drescher". Interview with Craig Ellenport, www.nfl.com. October 3, 2007.

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• To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

  Don DeLillo

  Football, Thinking, Past

  "Director’s Cut: Q&A With Don DeLillo". Interview with by Rafe Bartholomew, grantland.com. October 12, 2011.

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• US officials have now approved the first anti-obesity drug for dogs. I'm no a veterinarian, but if your dog is over eating, try putting a little less food in the bowl. Do we really need to give him a pill? Is the dog taking your car keys and driving to McDonalds?

  Jay Leno

  Dog, Keys, Mcdonalds

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• For when we quaff the gen'rous bowl,
  Then sleep the sorrows of our soul.
  Let us drink the juice divine,
  The gift of Bacchus, god of wine.
  When I take wine, my cares go to rest.

  Anacreon

  Wine, Sleep, Soul

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• It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

  John Madden

  Nfl, Looking Forward, Super Bowl

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• Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile.

  Abraham Cowley

  Wine, Rose, Temples

  Abraham Cowley (1784). “The Poetical Works of Abraham Cowley ...”, p.245

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• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Mike Rogers

  Hard Work, Awards, Healthy

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• The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

  Nhat Hanh

  Reality, Facts, Action

  Various, Ledi Sayadaw, Bhikkhu Khantipalo, Nyanaponika Thera, Padmasiri de Silva (2012). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XVI: Numbers 231–247”, p.66, Buddhist Publication Society

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