Balls Quotes - Page 28

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

  Ice Cube

  Wall, Drinking, Eight

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• My ex-husband and I, even though we're not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he's there.

  Charisma Carpenter

  Husband, Kids, Together

  "Charisma Carpenter Talks 'The Lying Game' Shockers and More". Interview, okmagazine.com. February 26, 2013.

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• Some maniac butcher is trying to hack away your balls.

  Alice Cooper

  Insanity, Trying, Butchers

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• I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.

  Danny Pino

  Brother, Blessed, Men

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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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• The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

  David Duval

  Air, Land, Way

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• It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Games, Hunger, Economy

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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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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• 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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• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  Gary McCord

  Golf, Player, Two

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• I can score the basketball, but I think I can pass pretty well or I can make the correct pass. I'm not the type of guy who's just going to throw the ball inbounds to a guy who's wide open. I can make the right pass.

  Kevin Durant

  Basketball, Thinking, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

  Carolina Herrera

  Gowns, Should, Very Romantic

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• If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Team, Important, Trying

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• I am stronger than I was last year. I am throwing the ball better now in May of 2013 than I did in May of 2012 - significantly better. I got better throughout the season.

  Peyton Manning

  Years, Stronger, May

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• I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things, I just didn't think about them. And then I had someone who came in as a tornado, this creative, beautiful ball of insane energy and passion. And it completely opened me up.

  Susan Downey

  Beautiful, Passion, Home

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

  Pierre Daninos

  Names, Achievement, Feelings

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• I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

  Aynsley Dunbar

  Bucks, Down And, Gigs

  "ON THE COVER: Aynsley Dunbar". Interview wth Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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• The only time a juggler / Appeals to me / Is when I see him / Miss the ball.

  Khalil Gibran

  Missing, Appeals, Jugglers

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• You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Leadership, Opportunity, Waiting

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Two, People

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• When I'm naked, I really like to do push-ups. No. I think I really tackle it like everything else. If you're going to commit yourself to playing something, you have to be able to understand it. If you can understand it, then you can do it and go balls out with it. But, I've never been in a position where I've been like, "This doesn't feel right." I wouldn't do it, if it was that. I like the shock value of it. I think that, if you use it correctly, it's pretty effective, as long as I'm lit really, really, really well.

  Charlize Theron

  Thinking, Long, Naked

  Source: collider.com

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• The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Wind, Storm

  "Wilhelm Tell", IV. 1. 59, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 753-54, 1922.

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eggs, Giving, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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