Benches Quotes - Page 6

• To those who don't think defense is important, you'll get the best seat on the bench.

  Rick Majerus

  Thinking, Important, Defense

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• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  Dan Quisenberry

  Jobs, Real, Mean

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• I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.

  Sean William Scott

  Loyalty, Baseball, Lying

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• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  Barbra Streisand

  Dog, Husband, Road Trip

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• As a goalkeeper, you can't come off the bench for 10 minutes and prove your worth - it's either you're in or you're out.

  Joe Hart

  Goalkeepers, Minutes, Prove

  "Joe Hart: Man City keeper says he is 'surplus to requirements'". Interview With Steve Bower, www.bbc.com. March 10, 2017.

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• After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench overlooking lake shore drive.

  David Levithan

  Reflection, Lakes, Swings

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.93, Penguin

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• I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or subway station, heads touching while they sit on a park bench, and I ache to hear the song that plays between them: The stirring chords of romance's first bloom, the stately airs that whisper between a couple long in love. You can see it in the way they look at each other... you can almost hear it. Almost, but not quite, because the music belongs to them and all you can have of it is a vague echo that rises up from the bittersweet murmur and shuffle of your own memories.

  Charles de Lint

  Song, Couple, Memories

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• And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

  Amy Tan

  Betrayal, Years, Piano

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• At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.

  Mark Haddon

  Love, Teenage, Giving Up

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• We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers over our throats, one weeping and the other laughing hideously. As I took Selma's hand and put it to my lips, she came close to me and placed a kiss on my forehead, then dropped on the wooden bench. She shut her eyes and whispered softly, "Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings!

  Khalil Gibran

  Farewell, Eye, Kissing

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• What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

  Daniel Keyes

  Incredibles, Deaf, Retarded

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.” Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset.” "You...you carried me here?” "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot.” Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

  Richelle Mead

  Hurt, Men, Feet

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• They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hands, Perfect

  "The Elephant Vanishes". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• I'm counting to ten in my head." "Is it helping?" "No." "It doesn't help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by the way?" "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Frustration, Weight, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.257, Penguin

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• Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?

  Kiersten White

  Sweet, Children, Jumping

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• Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the sidewalk, laid on a shelf or bench. Even quarters. "I hate change," she said. "It's so . . . jangly." "Do you realize how much you must throw away in a year?" I said. "Did you ever see a little kid's face when he spots a penny on a sidewalk?"

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Kids, Years

  "Stargirl". Book by Jerry Spinelli, August 8, 2000.

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• You’re disgusting when you eat,” Chuck said, sitting on the bench next to him. “It’s like watching a starving pig eat his own klunk.

  James Dashner

  Pigs, Sitting, Next

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.131, Scholastic UK

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• He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Grandmother, Play

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• If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.

  Tisha Venturini

  Pits, Quiet, Ifs

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• I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Taken, Eye

  Speech in House of Commons, 28 Jan. 1931

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• At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

  Dirk Benedict

  Pulse, Males, Pounds

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• A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.

  Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

  Book, Taken, Court Judges

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• What I tend to do is to wake about five in the morning-this happens quite often-think about the invention, and then image it in my mind in 3D, as a kind of construct. Then I do experiments with the image...sort of rotate it, and say, 'Well what'll happen if one does this?' And by the time I get up for breakfast I can usually go to the bench and make a string and sealing wax model that works straight off, because I've done most of the experiments already.

  James Lovelock

  Morning, Thinking, Imagination

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• On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless

  Prodigy

  Rap, Trying, Parks

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• One main problem with raising awareness of LGBT abuse is the denial. The term "domestic violence" is perceived as something akin to alcoholism, ("I don't sit on a park bench drinking") and people do not see that they are perpetrating or are a victim of DV because they have a set idea about what it is.

  Kim Kardashian

  Drinking, Ideas, People

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