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Quotes About Basket

The hand which scoops up the water is the first vessel. The fingers of both hands intertwined are the first basket. [p. 217]
~ Elias Canetti
Swish: A made basket. Swoosh: The Nike logo. Swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh, swish-swoosh: A thousand coaches in nylon tracksuits, walking through hotel lobbies at the Final Four.
~ Steve Rushin
Into the plastic basket went my selections, and off I set, step by step, sideways down the stairs, like Little Red Riding Hood on her way to Granny's house via the underworld. Except that I myself am Granny, and I contain my own bad wolf. Gnawing away, gnawing away.
~ Margaret Atwood
Helpless, heartbroken and lonely, Katrien sank into the grass at the side of the road and wept—wept until she had no more tears. Darkness had already set in by the time she picked up the overturned basket and headed home. From somewhere in the grass came the gleam of a silver thimble…
~ Anne Frank
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
~ Jose Bergamin
I'm not a guy that's going to shoot 10 3s a game - I like to get to the basket. But some of those shots I do gotta take. Some of those shots I gotta let fly.
~ Jaylen Brown
Timely advice is lovely, like golden apples in a silver basket. —Proverbs 25:11
~ Gary Chapman
I would take an oath that I smelled Agilus's blood on the rain-washed air before his head banged into the basket.
~ Gene Wolfe
My name is Chief Animae Cibus, I come from the Anasazi, a name meaning, alien ancestors and basket weavers. We walked this earth and these lands for a very long time. I have not come to harm you, I have come to admonish you." Instinctively
~ John V. Panella
Tell your puppy to "get your toy" as you walk to the basket and play with them.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Caldris led them over to a large covered basket that sat on the stones near the docked dinghy. He undid the cover, reached in and removed a live kitten. "- Hello, you monstrous little necessity". "- Mrrrrwwwwww", said the monstrous little necessity.
~ Scott Lynch
LXV [Once, I knew a fine song] Once, I knew a fine song, —It is true, believe me,— It was all of birds, And I held them in a basket; When I opened the wicket, Heavens! They all flew away. I cried, "Come back, little thoughts!" But they only laughed. They flew on Until they were as sand Thrown between me and the sky.
~ Stephen Crane
We have been obtuse toward nationalism and identity issues in the Middle East and have lumped it all into the basket of "Islam.
~ Graham E. Fuller
Jadi gitu saja. Minta doa supaya rimba itu jadi huma. Besok minta doa lagi supaya semuanya tumbuh pisang, tumbuh serba tuk nenek. Lusa minta doa lagi supaya serba tuk nenek itu masuk melompat masuk bakul.
~ Shahnon Ahmad
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
~ Mary Oliver
At her feet was a largish basket woven of twigs. He didn't look into it; he couldn't. Every now and then her shoeless foot would nip out from beneath the dark hem of her skirt and give the basket a little push, and because of its rounded bottom, the basket rocked for a time. Then the green foot would appear again, and start the rocking over.
~ Gregory Maguire
But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket
~ Lawrence Durrell
I don't much like post-modernism, because post-modernist has become the basket in which every mediocre person can shuffle things and pretend to do something significant, and we could also mention who use post-modernism in this way - maybe we shouldn't.
~ Luca Guadagnino
The fear is that if the dollar falls below 50% of the currency basket held by commercial and central banks and insurance companies, there may be a democratization of the way currencies are priced.
~ Porter Stansberry
This year I've just been aggressive. I still have that mindset of passing the ball, and being aggressive and attacking to the basket is going to draw more attention, and that way I can find my teammates. Being in attack mode is something I try to bring into every single game, and that's what's making me be so successful.
~ James Harden
Coffin," as used in this recipe, meant a pie covered with a top crust. Coffin comes from the Middle French cofin for basket or holder. Pies and coffins were rectangular, square, or round and often had crusts thick enough to support the filling without an outer pan. Why, thou say'st true; it is a paltry cap, A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie: I love thee well, in that thou lik'est it not. THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
~ Francine Segan
The triangle offense is more for slashers and people who like to take the ball to the basket.
~ Reggie Miller
You can use annuals To fill an entire flowerbed (this popular use is why some places call annuals bedding plants) In container displays — in pots, windowboxes, patio planter boxes, and more To fill a hanging basket To edge a walkway To "spot" color in a perennial bed In edging and as decoration for a vegetable or herb garden To cover over or at least distract from a fading spring bulb display
~ Steven A. Frowine
Nolan Smith is going to be a guy that can drive to the basket, can create his own shot.
~ Jay Williams