“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive: the white ball sailing up into the sky, reaching its apex, falling and finally dropping to the turf, just the way I planned it.” PeopleWayMayArtFallWhiteSkyBallsGolfFlightReachingMuseumsSailingDroppingTurfApex Author:Arnold Palmer
“Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. But when dear Sebastian speaks it is like a little sphere of soapsud drifting off the end of an old clay pipe, anywhere, full of rainbow light for a second and then - phut! vanished, with nothing left at all, nothing.” IfsShouldLittlesEndsLightFallLeftSpeakMissingObjectsConversationBallsDearSpheresPlatesRainbowClayBangsPipeGlitterDriftingJugglingDrifting Off Author:Evelyn Waugh
“Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.” SufferingTurnsFallWindHabitBallsGreat MenExceptionStringsSlipsRootedLapsesNew HabitsWinding Up Book:The Heart of William James Source: The Heart of William James
“We just couldn't hit shots. We had good looks but they weren't falling and we kept turning the ball over.” LooksFallShotsBallsLooking Good Author:Luol Deng
“If you're looking to freelance, just get as many gigs going as you can, and you can make it work... It's about getting as many side projects as possible, keeping as many balls in the air as you can, and what you're doing, basically, is diversifying your portfolio, with the same kinds of rewards. One falls through, and you still have another one to work on.” IfsKindStillsFallSidesAirProjectsBallsRewardsWorking ItGigsPortfolios Author:Chris Hardwick
“I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.” NeedsHumansFallMagicBallsMiracleInnocenceCrystalsWandsMagic WandsCrystal Ball Author:Kate Bush
“You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.” KnowsFallThreeDependsShotsBallsKnocking Author:Chris Copeland
“Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.” PeopleLittlesFallChangeTreePositionBallsBitterDustDryWormsRipe Book:Women in Love Source: Women in Love
“The vicissitudes of life resemble one of those gilded balls seen in a fountain. Thrown up by the force of the water, it flies up and down - now at the top, catching the rays of the sun, now cast into the depths, then again shooting up, sometimes so high that it escapes altogether, and falls to the ground.” LifeSometimesFallForceWaterSunBallsDepthCastsShootingThrownRaysFountainUp And DownCatchingUps & DownsVicissitudesGildedShooting Up Author:Lady Randolph Churchill
“A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.” MenMayFallBallsGood ManClayLumpsIgnobleRebound Author:Bhartrhari
“I'm definitely one of those people that what comes into my head falls out of my mouth. That's a way for me to be even more creative, to sort of get the ball rolling and start parlaying off of somebody and interacting. That charge or that friction sometimes - if it's positive or negative - is inspiring, and it gets people to be I think creative, maybe.” PeopleIfsThinkingWaySometimesFallCreativeMouthsNegativeBallsRollingInteractingFriction Author:Giovanni Ribisi
“People who are close to me know, they so know that there were days when I was so tired that I would fall asleep anywhere. The onset photographer has pictures of me falling asleep everywhere. Like on chairs, on the floor, in the middle of a set, all curled up. There were times when crew members didn't know where to find me, but they knew I'd be curled up in a ball somewhere.” PeopleKnowsFallMiddleMembersBallsTiredPhotographerChairsCrewFind MeFalling Asleep Author:Emma Watson