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Quotes About Basket

There had been a time when the continents were different, Rincewind understood, and then they'd sort of shuffled more comfortably together like puppies on a basket.
~ Terry Pratchett
Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?
~ Don Rickles
My teammates trust me to put the ball in the basket when it counts.
~ Andrew Wiggins
Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.
~ Anthony Liccione
Life is like a fruit basket. You can eat some of it or wast it and throw some of it out. Only you can chose on wat to do with that fruit basket.
~ Takaya Natsuki
We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.
~ Adi Godrej
Speaking truth to power is a noble endeavor but of limited utility if one's head is in a basket.
~ Christopher Moore
You shouldn't abuse the revolutionaries, Mother Streetcorner. My pistol is on your side. It's to help you find more things worth eating in your basket.
~ Victor Hugo
When faith goes to the market, it always takes a basket.
~ L.B. Cowman
Josh Smith, put in the right spots, is an outstanding player. You put Josh down on the right block, in the low post or even on a short isolation - 12 feet, 15 feet from the basket - he can get to the rim. He's outstanding. He's not only a very willing passer but an outstanding passer. I think it's the best part of Josh's game.
~ Stan Van Gundy
No. I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was for ever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been.
~ Charles Dickens
Peggotty always went to sleep with her chin upon the handle of the basket, her hold of which never relaxed; and I could not have believed unless I had heard her do it, that one defenceless woman could have snored so much.
~ Charles Dickens
Salvador Dali's devastating Basket of Bread, the masterpiece that he painted just before being expelled from Madrid's Academia
~ James Patterson
A golden rule? Do not come food shopping when you're starving hungry and craving stuff. You'll fill your basket with all the naughty things you probably wouldn't eat.
~ Joe Wicks
When they widened the lane to prevent me from staying so close to the basket that just created more opportunity for me to pass the ball around.
~ George Mikan
What are you doing in there, Camicazi? I told you to escape! And how did you know this was my sand yacht? You wrote 'The Hopeful Puffin 2' on the back of it, explained the basket, adding hastily, and I don't know what you're talking about. I've never heard of this Cami-whatsit.
~ Cressida Cowell
A journey of twenty minutes by rail or omnibus, and a luncheon basket, will make a day in the country possible to most town dwellers; and if one day, why not many, even every suitable day?
~ Charlotte M. Mason
And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a basket of strawberries right now, I'm going to poke you with this large stick.
~ Lemony Snicket
I wonder whether the foregoing pages of my writing-paper have been torn to pieces and thrown into the waste-paper basket? You wouldn't litter the carpet. No. I may be torn in pieces, but I do you justice for all that.
~ Wilkie Collins
The pickaxe and the basket built cities The steadfast house the pickaxe builds... The house which rebels against the king, The house which is not submissive to its king, The pickaxe makes it submissive to its king.
~ Lewis Mumford
Footwork is the foundation to my offensive game. Being able to move, pivot around and dribble better were the big things I wanted to add to my game, as well as stretching out my game so I can shoot away from the basket better.
~ Brittney Griner
The player I was overseas, three-point shooting wasn't my first thing. I was a one-on-one, driving-to-the-basket type player.
~ Danilo Gallinari
I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.
~ John Baldessari
Smush was a slight, crafty player who was good at slipping through defenses to attack the basket and playing tough, full-court defense.
~ Phil Jackson