Historical fiction Quote by Linda Collison

“After all, this is what learning is: as we learn a task, we get better at it, be it tennis, geometry, or a foreign…

— Ethem Alpaydin

“A certain skill at billiards is the mark of a gentleman, but to play too well is the sign of a misspent youth. Lucien…

— Mary Jo Putney

“Change flows organically from the students themselves.”

— David Edward Goldberg

“We are merely the star's tennis balls, struck and banded Which way please them.”

— John Webster

“The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.”

— Orson Scott Card

“And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being caught in some kind of a meaningless game…

— Ram Dass

“Entering the ball is like crashing on a planet where no one cares how you dress or how you dance or who you love.”

— J.C. Lillis

“They passed through the billiard-room, where the Colonel was making a sensational break, and into the small conservatory which led from it. Lord”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“We need a Drop the Ball movement—”

— Tiffany Dufu

“The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.”

— Terry Pratchett

“A dementia patient yesterday stuck a billiard ball in his mouth, and it couldn’t be dislodged by any means.”

— Hendrik Groen

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

— Gregory Bateson