Bowling Quotes - Page 6

• And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Father, Golf, Winning

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• When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Party, Ideas, Together

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• When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.

  Luke Perry

  Kids, Eyebrows, Machines

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

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• Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.

  Al Yankovic

  Suicide, Blow, Brain

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• By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

  Christopher Walken

  Queens, School, Names

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• Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Kind, Bigs

  "Chris Hardwick discusses his favorite episodes of Nerdist". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2013.

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• In most cases, the best strategy for a job interview is to be fairly honest, because the worst thing that can happen is that you won't get the job and will spend the rest of your life foraging for food in the wilderness and seeking shelter underneath a tree or the awning of a bowling alley that has gone out of business.

  Daniel Handler

  Jobs, Tree, Gone

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

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• I rose to my knees, mouth dry and heart pounding, and paused to finger a rip in my beautiful Dacron bowling shirt. I pushed my fingertip through the hole and wiggled it at myself. Hello, Dexter, where are you going? Hello, Mr. Finger. I don't know, but I'm almost there. I hear my friends calling.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Beautiful, Rip, Heart

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.200, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• You’re not seriously going out again, are you?” “Seriously, yeah. Bowling. Her name’s Laura. If you want more details, you’re gonna have to download the video like everybody else.

  Rachel Caine

  Names, Details, Video

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.29, Penguin

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• I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far over the edge they were in the bathroom. "The happy man said...bowling practice?" I hoped he was right, but then there was an urgent knock on the suite's interior door. Annabeth stuck her head in--her blonde hair in a rat's nest. "DISEMBOWLING practice?

  Rick Riordan

  Lying, Men, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

  Doug Flutie

  Autism, People, Community

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• A bloke's bowling at 150kph trying to rip the fingers off your arms or probably even worse. It gets your blood going and the adrenalin pumping. You are in a fight. And to me that's what Test cricket is all about.

  Justin Langer

  Rip, Fighting, Blood

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• While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

  Chris Hardwick

  Sports, Reality, Media

  "Technology's gutterball - new gear makes bowling too easy" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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• If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England.

  Monty Panesar

  Thinking, Would Be, England

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• You're so used to being on the road and having a schedule that the insanity seeps in when you're sitting at home and there's nothing going on that day. I remember the first time we got off one of our first big tours, I told my guys, "Go home to your girlfriends." The next day, all my guys texted me like, "Do you wanna, like, do something? Let's all go bowling. I can't hang with people that live normal lives."

  Lzzy Hale

  Girlfriend, Home, Next Day

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

  Terry Eagleton

  Ivory Tower, Towers, Culture

  "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.

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• The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces.

  Trevor Bailey

  Games, Bread, Cuisine

  "The Spinners' Web". Book by Trevor Bailey and Fred Trueman, 1988.

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• In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, New York, Athlete

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• For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field.

  Suresh Raina

  Passion, Bats, Balls

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• You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.

  Demetri Martin

  Glasses, Balls, Way

  Twitter post from Jul 27, 2012

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• A lot of the lads have a bat for the nets, a bat for facing the bowling machine and a separate bat for the match. I'll just crack on with a bat until it breaks - then crack on with another one.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Cracks, Machines, Bats

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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