Billiard Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the…
— David Hume
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A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white…
— Terry Pratchett
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet…
— Ernest Hemingway
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At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it…
— Frank Cady
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The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at…
— Benjamin Franklin
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The young bloods of the South; sons of planters, lawyers about towns, good billiard players and sportsmen, men who never did any work and never…
— William Tecumseh Sherman
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Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet…
— Walker Percy
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There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this…
— Helen Fielding
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Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are…
— Roald Hoffmann
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The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!
— James Taylor
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You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant…
— Dorothy Parker
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But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom…
— C.S. Lewis
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If we're open to it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives... to change us. It might be a laughing child,…
— Donna VanLiere
Who Wrote These Billiard Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Billiard Quotes as follows: