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Letter "B" » ball
«When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
artistic, ball, dozen, emotional, half a dozen, half dozen, intensity, movement, performance, pitcher, reaches, similar, The Movement, tone
«The average lawyer is essentially a mechanic who works with a pen instead of a ball peen hammer.»
Author: Robert Schmitt
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
ball-peen hammer, ball, essentially, hammer, lawyer, mechanic, peen, pen
«The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
automatically, ball, ball over, ball up, base, baser, basest, catching, choice, choose, Considering, fly, fly ball, infant, on base, On The Ball, save, saving
«Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
amuse, amuses, ball, billiard, billiards, frivolous, hitting, hit man, playing, reasons, such as, sufficient, thus, weariness, weary, wretched
«Yes, honey...Just squeeze your rage up into a bitter little ball and release it at an appropriate time, like that day I hit the referee with the whiskey bottle.»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
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appropriate, appropriated, appropriates, appropriating, ball, bitter, bottle, bottled, bottle up, bottling, hit, honey, rage, raged, rages, Rage for, referee, referees, release, squeeze, squeezed, squeezing, time like, whiskey, whiskeys, whiskey bottle
«You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Laziness
| Keywords:
ball, ball over, ball up, imagine, laziness, On The Ball, rolling, roll over, roll up, send
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