Bowls Quotes - Page 18

• In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Zero, Winter, Ice

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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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• I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.

  Pat Bowlen

  Memories, Loss, Fading

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• As I and the rest of my Pittsburgh Steelers teammates prepared that week in late December 1974, we knew one thing: The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC went through Oakland. To achieve your dreams as a team, you had to slay the Oakland Raiders. They were the barometer of what it took to be a championship team.

  Joe Greene

  Dream, Team, Oakland

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• The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.

  John the Apostle

  Angel, Fire, Names

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• If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

  Bret Stephens

  Benefits, Super Bowl, Hindsight

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• You can't ride home on a bowl of goat.

  Ron White

  Home, Goats

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• I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.

  Jean Cocteau

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

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• Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat.

  Dizzy Dean

  Breakfast, Advertising, Beats

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• I remember one day when Juan Gris told me about a bunch of grapes he had seen in a painting by Picasso. The next day these grapes appeared in a painting by Gris, this time in a bowl; and the day after, the bowl appeared in a painting by Picasso.

  Jacques Lipchitz

  Next Day, One Day, Juan

  Jacques Lipchitz, H. Harvard Arnason (1972). “My life in sculpture”, Viking Adult

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• I hate reality shows like Big Brother and I'm A Celebrity. I'd rather watch a goldfish bowl.

  Janet Street-Porter

  Brother, Hate, Reality

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• I've had a lot of clouds in my life since I got into pro football -- too many -- but now I feel like I can see really clearly for the first time. And I can see the Super Bowl from here.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Clouds, Firsts

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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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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  Edward V. Long

  Naked, Goldfish, Privacy

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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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• The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.

  Allan Sherman

  Funny, Stars, Home

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• Once he saw the officials of a temple leading away some one who had stolen a bowl belonging to the treasurers, and said, "The great thieves are leading away the little thief."

  Diogenes

  Saws, Temples, Thieves

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.

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• The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Drinking, Simple

  Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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• Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Stars, Warrior, Soul

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.38

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• In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.

  Jay Leno

  Football, Team, Player

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• On the good ship Lollipop Its a sweet trip To the candy shop Where bon-bon's play, On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay Lemonade stands, Everywhere Crackerjack bands, Fill the air, And there you are, Happy landings on a chocolate bar. See the sugar bowl Do a tootsie roll In a big bad devils food cake, If you eat too much, Oh, oh, You'll awake, With a tummy ache.

  Shirley Temple

  Sweet, Beach, Air

  Song: On The Good Ship Lollipop

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• My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

  Eli Manning

  Football, Brother, Memories

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• The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.

  Bob DuPuy

  Baseball, Winning, Years

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• We played in the Senior Bowl, ... I got MVP out of jamming his (expletive). It basically started there, with a long week of getting after each other.

  Fred Smoot

  Senior, Mvp, Long

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