Playing Billiards Quotes & Sayings

I really am grateful to have so many people watch, and to be given the chance to create my next projects. I want to once again tackle the boundless possibilities of animated movies, and I hope to be able to create something that will leave both children and adults thinking that this world is a sparkling, brightly shining place. — Mamoru Hosoda

We're playing strip billiards. — Roger Vadim

Social Media is a shared delusion of grandeur. — Michael P. Naughton

Indeed, one view of the European debt crisis - the Greek street view - is that it is an elaborate attempt by the German government on behalf of its banks to get their money back without calling attention to what they are up to. The German government gives money to the European Union rescue fund so that it can give money to the Irish government so that the Irish government can give money to Irish banks, so the Irish banks can repay their loans to the German banks. "They are playing billiards," says Enderlein. "The easier way to do it would be to give German money to the German banks and let the Irish banks fail. — Michael Lewis

I liked finding dirt on people. It made all my trespasses seem trivial. — Lisa Lutz

I heard only last week that they want to make Erkenwald into a saint. Priests come to my home beside the northern sea where they find an old man, and they tell me I am just a few paces from the fires of hell. I only need repent, they say, and I will go to heaven and live for evermore in the blessed company of the saints. And I would rather burn till time itself burns out. — Bernard Cornwell

A great attitude is not the result of success; success is the result of a great attitude. — Earl Nightingale

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him. — Werner Herzog

Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously, as an imperative to do everything for the patient regardless of the cost or effects on others — Ezekiel Emanuel

The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies! — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

Busy, busy, busy. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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. — Blaise Pascal

Sex at the age of 90 is like playing billiards with a rope — Camille Paglia

He thought of nothing. Some thoughts or fragments of thoughts, some images without order or coherence floated before his mind--faces of people he had seen in his childhood or met somewhere once, whom he would never have recalled, the belfry of the church at V., the billiard table in a restaurant and some officers playing billiards, the smell of cigars in some underground tobacco shop, a tavern room, a back staircase quite dark, all sloppy with dirty water and strewn with egg-shells, and the Sunday bells floating in from somewhere.... The images followed one another, whirling like a hurricane. Some of them he liked and tried to clutch at, but they faded and all the while there was an oppression within him, but it was not overwhelming, sometimes it was even pleasant.... The slight shivering still persisted, but that too was an almost pleasant sensation. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to them with music. — Roddy Woomble

The walls of her stall were covered with graffiti. If it had been funny ("Pull here for MFA Degree" right below the toilet paper dispenser) she would've stayed longer, but it was mostly weird random names and dates. — Grady Hendrix

Sometimes I will look away very quickly, and freeze frame that first impression, pleased with myself that I have outsmarted my own smartness, and perceived a colour as it actually is. — Catherine Taylor

Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards. — Piet Hein

I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed. — Ruba Nadda

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself. — Michael Billig

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama. — Craig Ferguson