Baskets Quotes - Page 7

• Among gardeners, enthusiasm and experience rarely exist in equal measures. The beginner dreams of home-grown bouquets and baskets of ripe fruit, the veteran of many seasons has learned to expect slugs, mildew, and frost.

  Roger Swain

  Education, Dream, Home

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• I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it...

  Syd Barrett

  Giving, Looks, Bells

  "Song: Bike (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)". August 5, 1967.

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• What is the best thing you can do in a close game? Drive to the basket and put pressure on the defense! Not jack up jump shots

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• What do you do to help us win when you're not scoring baskets?

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Winning, Nba

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• If we start counting our chickens before they hatch, they won't lay
  any eggs in the basket

  Bobby Robson

  Eggs, Chickens, Counting

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• Larry Bird just throws the ball in the air and God moves the basket underneath it.

  Howie Chizek

  Sports, Moving, Air

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• It was just weird. Once you get the ball and you get in a situation, it's like haywire, everything goes crazy, and everybody's running around. You don't know who to pass it to or what to do. So Coach said just slow down and just make the right play. I tried to get the best look I could at the basket.

  Nate Robinson

  Running, Crazy, Play

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• I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.

  George Holyoake

  Atheism, Half, Littles

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• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Eggs, Oval

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• When children ask me what's my favorite [role], I say to them, "Imagine having ten beautiful new puppies in a basket and you had to say which one is your favorite, and you simply couldn't because you love them all for different reasons." POPPINS was such a learning experience, as was THE SOUND OF MUSIC. I tell you, every one of them just helped me grow in what I do and did and each one was such a phenomenal working experience.

  Julie Andrews

  Beautiful, Children, Sound

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• Each of us, with money, gets further and further away from those moments where the hand pulls the beet root from the soil, shakes the fish from the net into the basket -- not to mention the way it separates us from one another, so that when enough money comes between people, they lie apart like parts of a chicken hacked up for stewing.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Money, Lying, Hands

  Samuel R. Delany (2011). “Tales of Neveryeon”, p.171, Wesleyan University Press

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• The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in.

  Allen Iverson

  Ocean, Rocks, Throwing

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• Where you really have your eggs in one basket and that breach happens and you know you should go but you're still in love and you just don't know what to do. It hits you because it's not like -- you're a cheater, and a liar, and I hate you, and you're no good, and I'm leaving. It's not that. It's like, I'm tormented. Even though you've done this and I know it, I still don't know what to do. I know I should go, but I don't want to. And that's why it's such a f***ed-up thing.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hate, Liars, Cheater

  Interview with Candice Rainey, www.elle.com. January 5, 2010.

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• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  Ted Nugent

  Art, Real, Sunday

  "Vegans, Keep Out: It's Hunting Season". Interview with Danny Hakim, The New York Times, September 27, 2005.

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• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! . . . I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Passion, Fate, Justice

  Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery (1975). “Picasso, Braque, Léger: masterpieces from Swiss collections”

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• It's like the basket is an ocean and everything you throw up is going in. You get into that kind of groove, and it's all good.

  Tristan Thompson

  Ocean, Kind, Groove

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• When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

  Lulu

  Home, Thinking, Singing

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• How wonderful it is to celebrate a 27 years career! When you moved from basket ball to music, the world of sports lost a great player, but music won a great singer. You transmit good vibrations, a wonderful energy on the stage.

  Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira

  Sports, Player, Years

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• You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Writing, Eggs, Acting

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• I went [to Hobby Lobby] this morning and bought the cutest little wicker basket to hold all my morning-after pills.

  Cecily Strong

  Morning, Hobbies, Pills

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• Mr. Bennett, for just giving me this opportunity. I thank you for always being there for me when I need you. Every time I see you under the basket for a game, I feel confident. No matter how the game is going, I look at you - I say, if our owner's behind us, we can do it all. I thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.

  Kevin Durant

  Opportunity, Mvp, Games

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• Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Our Words, World

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• It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Lying, Hard Work

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• He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.

  Dave Eggers

  Feelings, Jogging, Room Service

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.158, Vintage

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