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Quotes About Balls

There might be something in what the man says, even if he is a Hindu mystic. He was once Dr. Richard Alpert, clinical psychologist, after all – and some of Washington's explanations of the war in Vietnam and more recent wars have sounded, at least to me, suspiciously like Tyrone's notions concerning the worldwide plot against his balls.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
You and Galileo," I said. "Didn't he throw his balls off the leaning tower?" Quirk Said.
~ Robert B. Parker
I don't think that I would ever do serenade to be romantic. You have to have so much balls to do that.
~ Robert Pattinson
There were the twins, faces vacant with concentration as they walloped small red balls attached to paddles. Pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a-pat-a . . . They'd been jai-alai-ing all this time. Despite himself, Dexter smiled.
~ Jennifer Egan
Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!
~ Emily Giffin
Uh, yeah. Just two guys and their clubs… uh, swinging their sticks… uh whacking… erm, beating balls around the bush, I mean into the holes, the ones with the sticks in them, I mean…." Meltdown. Complete and total verbal meltdown. Mason closed his eyes and rested his forehead against the cool varnished wood of the counter, linking his fingers behind his neck.
~ Amy Lane
The problem with traditional pie weights is you never have enough and they're expensive. Common substitutes like dried beans just aren't heavy enough to do the job. Our genius solution? Small steel balls that fit inside ball bearings and that can be purchased at any hardware store.
~ Claire Saffitz
It's the most depressing-looking plaything I ever saw.' 'I want to pretend I live in it,' I said, 'and give masked balls.' My social history was eager but indiscriminate.
~ Robert Aickman
The goathorn's aim was true and he appeared to have an endless supply of balls.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
the desire that no daughter of mine should ever be in a position to be able to write BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I SAT DOWN AND WEPT -- exquisite prose though it might contain. ('BY GRAND CENTRAL STATION I TORE OFF HIS BALLS' would be more like it, I should hope.)
~ Angela Carter
shag4 /?aÉ¡/ I. verb — [with obj.] 1. [Baseball] chase or catch (fly balls) for practice. • you run down to the field and hit a few baseballs and shag a few fly balls. – origin early 20th cent.: of unknown origin.
~ Angus Stevenson
Obviously in T20, variations are important whereas bowling lots of slower balls in a Test isn't going to help anyone.
~ Jofra Archer
Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'
~ Jay-Z
While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.
~ Henny Youngman
Technical players make the game easy. They have a view of the pitch different from other players. They put the last pass for the strikers. They are the players that lose two or three balls in a year.
~ Manuel Pellegrini
Maybe bring in sponge balls to learn the technique and gain that experience of actually challenging for a header.
~ Ryan Mason
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
~ Clive James
Helping people rocked. This kind of stuff? Sucked hairy donkey balls
~ Jo Davis
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I use TaylorMade. I've tested every golf ball. TaylorMades are great.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
~ Terry Pratchett
You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.
~ Lisa Vidal
I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.
~ William Monahan
The sport of choice for the urban poor is basketball. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is bowling. The sport of choice for front-line workers is football. The sport of choice for supervisors is baseball. The sport of choice for middle management is tennis. The sport of choice for corporate officers is golf. Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.
~ Anonymous