Balls Quotes - Page 35

• To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

  Terence McKenna

  Eye, Giving, World

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• A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Party, Men, Views

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• You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

  Josh Billings

  Stupidity, Cannons

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• Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Prussia, Cannons

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• Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
  after partridges, or a little rubber ball?
  wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Rubber, Littles

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.278, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Fall, Dust

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.122, Xist Publishing

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• Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
  Through pathless realms of Space,
  Roll on!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Space, Earth, Realms

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “To The Terrestrial Globe”

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• Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  School, Hands, Names

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

  Warren Buffett

  Baseball, Book, Mean

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• I have heard of managers who encourage players not to slide hard for fear they will get hurt and be lost from the lineup for a time. That is why you occasionally see a player go into second base on a double-play ball and not even bother to slide. I wonder, could Ty Cobb
  sit though plays like that and hold his lunch?

  Frank Robinson

  Hurt, Player, Lunch

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

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• The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.

  Lady Randolph Churchill

  Life, Fall, Water

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• Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wall, Order, Dancing

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• You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

  Evel Knievel

  Hurt, Pain, Eye

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• I am not superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I am juggling a lot of balls in the air? And sometimes some of the balls get dropped.

  Geoffrey Blainey

  Reality, Air, Daily Life

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• Find out where the ball is, get there; hit it.

  Ranjitsinhji

  Explaining his tactics as a batsman. Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• I fired the ball for the purpose of giving those dudes to understand upon what ground I stood, believing that those of this class who believe that there are no women capable of taking care of themselves when young, would inform their friends that they might be in danger of their lives if they approached me.

  Mary Edwards Walker

  Women, Believe, Class

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• Giving advice is like playing pinball: only by pushing and pulling can you encourage the ball to go in a new direction and increase your score. But too much pushing and pulling can cause a tilt and stop the game.

  Chip R. Bell

  Games, Giving, Advice

  Chip R. Bell (2002). “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning”, p.96, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

  John Reader

  Science, Elephants, Apples

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• Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.

  Erma Bombeck

  Moving, Cat, Kids

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• 80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.

  Yogi Berra

  Isms, Holes, Miscellaneous

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• I'm not used to seeing the ball go wherever she wants. As a pitcher, I like to be - I don't want to say perfect, but I want to know what the ball is going to do.

  Mariano Rivera

  Perfect, Want, Used

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• We really had baseball in the family. Even that little habit I've got of chewing tobacco on the ball field sort of comes from my dad.

  Nellie Fox

  Baseball, Dad, Littles

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• We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

  Nellie Fox

  Stars, Team, Play

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• Joe Biden was spotted with a bruise on his face that was apparently caused by his dog. I guess they collided when they both went after the same tennis ball.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Dog, Tennis, Bruises

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• Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time

  David Ogilvy

  Jobs, Trying, Ambitious

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