Balls Quotes - Page 18

• Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fashion, Animal, Men

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1578, Delphi Classics

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Our knowledge of shape and form remains, in general, a mixture of visual and of tactile experiences... A child learns about roundness from handling a ball far more than from looking at it.

  Henry Moore

  Children, Shapes, Mixtures

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

  Frank Sinatra

  Good Night, Steps, Spotlight

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• I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

  Christine Lagarde

  Reading, Tea Leaves, Crystals

  "Christine Lagarde: can the head of the IMF save the euro?". Interview With Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Helping, Fence

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• It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment as the greatest orator, who triumphs in the splendour of his eloquence, while he governs the passions and resolutions of a numerous assembly.

  David Hume

  Passion, School, Dancing

  'Essays' (1741-2) 'The Sceptic'

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• If they can fight and die on Okinawa, Guadalcanal (and) in the South Pacific, they can play ball in America.

  Happy Chandler

  Fighting, America, Play

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• It's actually what I consider legalised cheating because one of the great senses that you have on a tennis court is your ability to hear the ball come off your opponent's strings [on Sharapova grunting

  John Newcombe

  Cheating, Tennis, Opponents

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• I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.

  Tim Henman

  Practice, Worry, Shapes

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• You have to be more disciplined in what you do. You have to make the plays when you're supposed to make them. When the play is presented to you, you have to make it. We have to have guys flying around the ball. It will definitely be a good game to watch this weekend.

  Takeo Spikes

  Weekend, Games, Play

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• I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.

  Brett Lee

  Hands, Games, Boss

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• I took Kanu on the Tuesday before the first game of the season because I never had any strikers. He said he hadn't kicked a ball since last season and I asked him if he'd been training.

  Harry Redknapp

  Games, Tuesday, Training

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• It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Light, Umpires, Judgement

  "Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

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• Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Dance, Hands, Ideas

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• Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.

  Arnold Palmer

  Fun, Moving, Golf

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• One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Water, I've Learned

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• Everyone wants to be known as a great striker of the ball for some reason. Nobody wants to be called a lucky, one-putting s.o.b.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Lucky, Want

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• Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Men, Play

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• I'm definitely someone who enjoys life and wakes up with a ball of energy.

  Pitbull

  Enjoy Life, Energy, Wake Up

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

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• What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.

  Arnold Palmer

  Art, Fall, Golf

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• Even before you step up to the ball, have a full battle plan for the hole worked out.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Battle, Steps

  Arnold Palmer (1970). “Situation golf”

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• There are guys, the weekenders, who can go out and get loaded and they're having fun and partying - which is a term I deplore, partying - and it's all recreational and they're having a ball. I never had that. It was never about recreation. Not. Ever. That was never my motivation. Not once!

  Johnny Depp

  Fun, Motivation, Party

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• Do your job and do it right, life's a ball, TV tonight.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Work, Tonight

  Song: Brown Shoes Don't Make It

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• The pitcher wound up and he flang the ball at the batter. The batter swang and missed. The pitcher flang the ball again and this time the batter connected. He hit a high fly right to the center fielder. The center fielder was all set to catch the ball, but at the last minute his eyes were blound by the sun and he dropped it.

  Dizzy Dean

  Humorous, Eye, Lasts

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