Bowls Quotes - Page 14

• Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lifetime, Bachelors, Stew

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• The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.

  Ken Kesey

  Running, Song, Mcmurphy

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• I can't imagine the scientists wanting me to walk into the lab and start fiddling around with some big bowl of electrons they had out.

  Jim Benton

  Labs, Imagine, Scientist

  Jim Benton (2013). “Dear Dumb Diary #11: Okay, So Maybe I Do Have Superpowers”, p.7, Scholastic

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• When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.

  Sandra Dallas

  Rain, Pudding

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. “He fights with us. We’re an army.” “An army? Talk about delusions of grandeur. What are you?” she asked Glenna. “Witch.” “So, we’ve got a witch, a sorcerer, a couple of refugees from Geall and a vampire. Some army.

  Nora Roberts

  Couple, Army, Fighting

  Nora Roberts (2006). “Morrigan's Cross”, p.253, Penguin

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• She said, "You're a warrior. So how do you kill without rage?" "In compassion. Because of necessity." Hrahima set the empty water bowl back in Samarkar's hands. "The same way you carry water.

  Elizabeth Bear

  Warrior, Compassion, Hands

  Elizabeth Bear (2012). “Range of Ghosts”, p.289, Macmillan

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• You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.

  Hilary Mantel

  Prayer, Silence, House

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• The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

  Gail Carriger

  Appreciate, Perfection, Kind

  Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.

  Andrew Flintoff

  Use, Looking Forward, Not Sure

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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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• When my sister and I were growing up, she was made out to be the goody-goody one.

  Princess Margaret

  Growing Up, Goldfish, Privacy

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

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• My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

  Alexa Chung

  Dad, Cutting, Hair

  "Alexa Chung For L'Oréal Professionnel INOA". Interview with Lisa Niven, www.vogue.co.uk. February 22, 2013.

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• China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.

  Constance Spry

  Fire, Tea, Afternoon

  Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”

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• I'm the only man with a Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl ring who doesn't wear it. I'm a Green Bay Packer.

  Herb Adderley

  Cowboy, Men, Dallas

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• The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Life, Real, Learning

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• Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Eagles, Doe

  'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'

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• He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'

  Jim Colletto

  Sports, Dad, Mean

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• You sit down at Katz's and you eat the big bowl of pickles and you're eating the pastrami sandwich, and halfway through you say to yourself, I should really wrap this up and save it for tomorrow. But the sandwich is calling you: Remember the taste you just had. So fatty. It's what you want. It's what you are! I've never gotten home from Katz's with a doggie bag in my hand. A pastrami sandwich at Katz's is what's bad and good about food. It's the sacred and the profane.

  Mario Batali

  Food, Home, Past

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• From 1973 to 1982 I ate the exact same lunch everyday . Turkey chili in a bowl made out of bread . Bread bowl George. First you eat the chili then you eat the bowl . There's nothing more satisfying than looking down after lunch and seeing nothing but a table.

  George Steinbrenner

  Turkeys, Lunch, Everyday

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• True Friends are the bacon bits
  In the salad bowl of life. How true
  I read that and straight away,
  My thoughts turned to you
  And especially today on your 60th
  These special wishes I send
  Have a really wonderful birthday
  My special "bacon flavored" friend

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, True Friend, Special

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• Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

  Graham Taylor

  Soccer, Ideas, Life Is Like

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• When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

  Margery Allingham

  Thinking, Tea, Sugar

  Margery Allingham (2015). “Dancers In Mourning”, p.285, Random House

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game.

  Bob Schieffer

  Football, Long Ago, Games

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 7, 2010.

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• Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

  Richard Dyer

  Playing Games, Dice, Casinos

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• I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

  Michael Strahan

  Winning, Years, Goal

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