Bowls Quotes - Page 22

• I was nineteen and I put a bowl on and I said, Cut around! Because it was not the fashion at the time when I did that hairdo - and I kept it all my life!

  Agnes Varda

  Fashion, Cutting, Nineteen

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Trying

  "Black Books". www.imdb.com. 2000–2004.

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• There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Stars, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• If I've to bowl to Sachin, I'll bowl with my helmet on. He hits the ball so hard.

  Dennis Lillee

  Balls, Cricket, Helmet

  "45 quotes on Sachin Tendulkar in honour of the Master Blaster’s 44th birthday". yourstory.com. April 24, 2017.

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• The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Sports, Mean, Sheep

  "Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia". Book by Neal Nicol and Harry Wylie, p. 247, 2006.

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• Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.

  Imran Khan

  Sports, Giving

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• Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Party, Book, Home

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• One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Athlete, Super Bowl, Reason

  "Miss Millennium: Beyoncé" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. January 10, 2013.

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• Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Morning, Prayer, Flower

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio.

  Norm MacDonald

  Sports, Years, Fans

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• The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit it, and by its little light saw that the rose floating in the bowl was dying. It had already lost most of its petals, which floated on the water like tiny, un-seaworthy boats, deserted for safer craft. "Dear God," I said. "I must go back at once.

  Robin McKinley

  Light, Water, Rose

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• I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Life, Rain, Eye

  Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Stargirl”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki

  Lynsay Sands

  Popcorn, Huge

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• Silently, I lifted my doggy bowl off the floor. Then, with a quick, powerful flip of my wrist, I threw it into the back of Blondie’s head so hard that – with an earsplitting bang – it smashed flat before it ricocheted across the room and snapped the round top piece off the thick newel post at the foot of the stairs.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Powerful, Feet, Bangs

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.181, Hachette UK

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• Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.

  Will McDonough

  Games, Creating, World

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• “You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”

  Robin Roberts

  Sports, Shapes, Cocktails

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• I think any show after the Super Bowl will have huge numbers.

  Randy Jackson

  Thinking, Numbers, Super Bowl

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• CBS's halftime show during the 2004 Super Bowl was a new low for television.

  Mike Rogers

  Television, Super Bowl, Lows

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• No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

  Roger Kahn

  Party, Events, Three

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• The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

  John Madden

  Sports, House, Down And

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• Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

  George Allen

  Morning, Next, Losing

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• Although I may find the type of programming seen during the 2004 Super Bowl and the 2003 Golden Globe Awards disgusting and disturbing, we must always work hard to defend the cherished freedoms so clearly outlined in our Constitution, including a healthy and free press.

  Mike Rogers

  Hard Work, Awards, Healthy

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• It's a big deal. ABC and MNF are a big part of NFL history, and it's going to end with the Super Bowl (on ABC). You can't say you're not looking forward to it .

  John Madden

  Nfl, Looking Forward, Super Bowl

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• To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

  Don DeLillo

  Football, Thinking, Past

  "Director’s Cut: Q&A With Don DeLillo". Interview with by Rafe Bartholomew, grantland.com. October 12, 2011.

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