If there are no more tournaments added I could be looking at playing pool. Why not? You don’t want to be sat at home twiddling your fingers all day. — Stephen Hendry
Snooker is my sanctuary and always has been. — Stephen Hendry
When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed. — Stephen Hendry
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right. — Clive James
It's so bad I could putt off a tabletop and still leave the ball halfway down the leg. — J. C. Snead
In snooker, it’s very important to keep very still on the shot and allow the cue to do the work. — Stephen Hendry
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway
Obviously, like Wembley is synonymous with tennis, snooker is synonymous with Sheffield. — Richard Caborn
Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand. — Ted Lowe
Croquet is tough. People play for months because the rules are so bizarre. Those crazy English. — Jane Kaczmarek
The tip I would give is that once you play the shot, make sure your chin is touching the cue after you hit the cue ball. — Stephen Hendry
Pool Quotes
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. — Franz Kafka
The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. — Lynn Culbreath Noel
I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool. — Sojourner Truth
If you are more fortunate than others, it is better to build a longer table than a taller fence.
Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim — Julius Malema
It is at the bottom where we find grace; for like water, grace seeks the lowest place and there it pools up. — Richard Rohr
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want. — Jimmy Hoffa
If you don't like how the table is set, turn over the table.
What would happen if the autism gene was eliminated from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of people standing around in a cave, chatting and socializing and not getting anything done. — Temple Grandin
I love drinking now and then. It defecates the standing pool of thought. A man perpetually in the paroxysm and fears of inebriety is like a half-drowned stupid wretch condemned to labor unceasingly in water; but a now-and-then tribute to Bacchus is like the cold bath, bracing and invigorating. — Robert Burns
I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the Southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigra race into our theaters, into our swimming pools, into our homes, and into our churches. — Strom Thurmond
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. — David Gerrold
Table Quotes
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn. — Drake
You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served". — Nina Simone
I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be. — Meek Mill
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table. — Dean Martin
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business. — Maxine Waters
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims. It is both the tables of the Torah and the Koran. It professes the religion of Love wherever its caravans are heading. Love is my law. Love is my faith. — Ibn Arabi
My heart can take on any form:
A meadow for gazelles,
A cloister for monks,
For the idols, sacred ground,
Ka'ba for the circling pilgrim,
The tables of the Torah,
The scrolls of the Quran.
My creed is Love;
Wherever its caravan turns along the way,
That is my belief,
My faith. — Ibn Arabi
Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights — Ephrem the Syrian
Cards On The Table Quotes
Let's be honest, the cards' on the table:
Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel.
Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus.
It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas. — Pusha T
What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table? — Jacques Lacan
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards. — John Steinbeck
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study — John P. Marquand
You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling partner on the other side of the table and it holds all the cards of the deck in its hand, we have to guess the winning cards of life, our lives. — Jose Saramago
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. — H. G. Wells
I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think thats a role that we should allow. — Pete Earley
I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters. — Jeremy Northam
Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets. — Stephen King
Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table. — Warren G. Bennis
Dancing On Tables Quotes
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard. — Chelsea Leyland
Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. — Samuel Johnson
You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life. — America Ferrera
Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives. — Zelda Fitzgerald
I'm still the girl that might get up to dance on the table. It's just who I am, and I'm going to be me and that's it. — Carmen Electra
I was in Rent, for Gods sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table. — Jesse L. Martin
Paparazzi will sit outside my house to see where I'm going, and when they see it's the studio, they'll be like, "This is boring," and drive off. But you'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life. — America Ferrera
I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am. — Karen Elson
If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to. — Tara Reid
The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant to be a jazzy people who talk big and jump on the table and dance; we aren't supposed to be dopey and glum and brood over old injuries. — Garrison Keillor
I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table. — Jimi Hendrix
All you need is a pool table, beer, an electric jukebox and good conversation. The day a girl beats me in a game of Beirut [a kind of beer pong] is a good sign! — Chace Crawford
Even on a personal note, my dressing table downstairs is crowded with things, like a mini landscape. It's a city with buildings and towers and roads. There's a pool and a little park. When I move something around it becomes a different tableau. — Tony Curtis
But I believe that there are marriages where you can have your pool table and she can have her scrapbooking room or garden or whatever it is. But when everyone has what they want, it's not funny. There's no conflict. — Brad Garrett
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital punishment, slash benefits and put single mothers into hostels instead of giving them council flats. Finally, if we chucked out all the illegal immigrants and asylum seekers there would be enough jobs for everyone. — Ken Bates
I took the volume to a table, opened its soft, ivory pages... and fell into it as into a pool during dry season. — Janet Fitch
Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch. — Meg Cabot
Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea spills over. There is a brown pool on the table--it is running among your books and papers. Now you mop it up, clumsily, with your pocket-hankerchief. You then stuff your hankerchief back into your pocket--that is not Byron; that is so essentially you that if I think of you in twenty years' time, when we are both famous, gouty and intolerable, it will be by that scene: and if you are dead, I shall weep. — Virginia Woolf
Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table. — Leo Durocher
The basic idea of Western science is that you don't have to take into account the falling of a leaf on some planet in another galaxy when you're trying to account for the motion of a billiard ball on a pool table on earth. Very small influences can be neglected. There's a convergence in the way things work, and arbitrarily small influences don't blow up to have arbitrarily large effects. — James Gleick
If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.' — Chi McBride
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 richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. — Stephen Jay Gould
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