"To say that these men paid their shillings……" — J. B. Priestley
"To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink."
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61 Quotes by J. B. Priestley
J. B. Priestley has 61 quotes on this site.
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds…
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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More Ball Quotes
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Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
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I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your…
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I guess I do prefer a ball cap. I have performed without a cap, mostly at funerals and weddings.
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for…
— Rowan Atkinson
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It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
— Ernie Banks
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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
— Dave Barry
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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Go on daddy-daughter dates and father-and-sons' outings with your children. As a family, go on campouts and picnics, to ball…
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take…
— Larry Bird
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
— Larry Bird
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which…
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