Darts Quotes

• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

  Dorothy Parker

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength.

  Sid Waddell

  Player, Body, Footballer

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• But here's the deal: If I were smart, I could figure out curling. If I were even smarter, I could figure out why people would actually watch other people doing it. I have tried. I can't. I can't even figure out the object of the game. Is it like darts? I just don't get it.

  Bob Schieffer

  Smart, Games, People

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• I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

  Eric Bristow

  Nice, Teaching, Play

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow". Interview with Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

  Eric Bristow

  Football, Kissing, Cuddling

  "Small Talk: Eric Bristow" by Nick Harper, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2003.

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• This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

  George Whitefield

  Feelings, Mind, Devil

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.226

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• No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.

  Eric Maisel

  Artist, Muse, Insight

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense,
  The surest guard is innocence:
  None knew, till guilt created fear,
  What darts or poisoned arrows were

  Horace

  Arrows, Guilt, Needs

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• The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.

  Madame de Stael

  Moving, Fire, Ideas

  "Germany" by Madame de Stael, Part III, Chapter II, 1813.

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• Look at what you could have won!

  Jim Bowen

  Winning, Games, Comedian

  "Bullseye", www.imdb.com. (1981– ).

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• A kitten is the most irresistible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Eye, Animal

  Agnes Repplier (1894). “In the Dozy Hours, and Other Papers”

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• So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first.' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest.'

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Games

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• The darts of love are blunted by maiden modesty.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Modesty, Maidens

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• Many people consider darts a sport, with a live audience and very excited fans and competitors who aren`t hitting the bull`s-eye.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Sports, Eye, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.

  Victor Hugo

  Morning, Light, Labyrinth

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• Real disciples absorb the fiery darts of the adversary by holding aloft the quenching shield of faith with one hand, while holding to the iron rod with the other (see Eph. 6:16; 1 Ne. 15:24; D&C 27:17). There should be no mistaking; it will take both hands!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Hands, Iron

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• I think spectators and fans are very important. Darts players would be nowhere without them.

  Trina Gulliver

  Player, Thinking, Important

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• As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Writing, Preparation

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• O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

  Walt Whitman

  Joy, Lightning, Spirit

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.334, NYU Press

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• If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Milk And Honey, Soul, Poison

  "Selections from the writings of ʻAbduʼl-Bahá". Book by `Abdu'l-Bahá, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.

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• Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Ideas, Space, Fire

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• Well as giraffes say, you don't get no leaves unless you stick your neck out.

  Sid Waddell

  Sticks, Necks, Giraffe

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• William Tell could take an apple off your head, [Phil] Taylor could take out a processed pea.

  Sid Waddell

  Apples, Peas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.

  C. S. Lewis

  Couple, Husband, Book

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Giving, Gossip

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.30

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