Good Snooker Quotes & Sayings

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. — Gypsy Rose Lee

I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know. — Ronnie O'Sullivan

When I'm home, I practice four or five hours a day ... I warm up for an hour before a gig. — Art Farmer

Unlike an envied and admirable few, I separate my friends and almost never dare mingle one group with another. When I do, it is usually a social disaster, like mixing drinks. I love good beer and I love good wine, but you cannot drink both on the same evening without suffering. I love the friends with whom I play or once daily played snooker and tooted quantities of high-grade pulverized Andean flake; I love the friends with whom I dine at preposterously expensive restaurants; I love the friends with whom I'm film-making or mincing on the stage. I love and value them all equally and don't think of them as stratified or in tiers, one group in some way higher or more important than the rest, but the thought of introducing them to each other makes me shiver and shudder with cringing embarrassment. — Stephen Fry

You must laugh in the face of adversity. In the end, humor is the greatest weapon against the pain. The — K. Hollan Van Zandt

I briefly closed my eyes and imagined him in a Barbie minivan hoping to expel the way his masculinity made me want to strip down to nothing and throw caution to the wind. — Rachel Van Dyken

In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was. — Daniel Negreanu

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it? — Howard Jacobson

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with. — Mark Mothersbaugh

Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us. — Leonard Peltier

Along with the differences that abide in each of us, there is also in each of us a maverick, the darling stubborn one who won't listen, who insists, who chooses preference or the spirited guess over yardsticks or even history. I suspect this maverick is somewhat what the soul is, or at least that the soul lives close by and companionably with its agitating and inquiring force. — Mary Oliver

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable. — Martin O'Malley

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment. — Edmund Phelps

You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes. — Josh Lanyon

Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like. — Joan Jett