Monkey Balls Game Quotes & Sayings

I heard a delightful - and possibly apocryphal - story about what happened when the British introduced golf to India in the 1820s. Upon building the first golf course there, the Royal Calcutta, the British discovered a problem: Indigenous monkeys were intrigued by the little white balls and would swoop down out of the trees and onto the fairways, picking them up and carrying them off. This was a disruption, to say the least. In response, officials tried erecting fences to keep the monkeys out, but the monkeys climbed right over. They tried capturing and relocating the monkeys, but the monkeys kept coming back. They tried loud noises to scare them away. Nothing worked. In the end, they arrived at a solution: They added a new rule to the game - "Play the ball where the monkey drops it. — Ed Catmull

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday. — Gary Reilly

I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time. — Jean Simmons

When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs in the States. I started noticing, as Apartheid's grip weakened, that we had more and more black kids at school; I had more and more black friends. But I never really saw a separation between myself and the black kids at school. — St. Lucia

Here I am as a running back, making a pretty good living, actually doing pretty good. — Brandon Jacobs

To sore make bad energy, make innocent cry, Aisyx no spread pain plague. — Poppet

How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Still to ourselves in every place consign'd,
Our own felicity we make or find: — Samuel Johnson

Nobody knows but you what it is that's sacred to you as far as what you want to manifest in your life. You need to do it by your own chosen standards. Your life does not need to look like anybody else's life. It's a commitment that you're making to a magnificent life measured by your own chosen standards. — Gay Hendricks

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on. — George Sewell

I feel like I'm late for love. I'll be 30 in March. Damn it! I knew I should have set my alarm clock. — Jarod Kintz

The Human Condition being, basically, that we're alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not. — Chad Harbach