Ball And Chain Quotes

#1. I used to be followed by a moon shadow. Now I'm followed by all these misconceptions, and they're like a ball and chain. I just want to write music from my heart and give people a message of hope and the search for a better place.

Cat Stevens

#2. I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#3. Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil
Or the quest for true love's bane,
And, to those less lucky,
She's called their ball and chain.

Phar West Nagle

#4. Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Heinz Guderian

#5. For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.

Mortimer Zuckerman

#6. Life isn't fair. It doesn't make sense. This unfairness is felt by everyone, from the Las Vegas tunnel dweller all the way to the executive in the high-rise. To some, these "unfair" experiences become a chastening ball and chain attached for the remainder of life.

John-Talmage Mathis

#7. There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

Brian Setzer

#8. That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks,
So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

Consequence

#9. I thought that he was righteous, but he's vain. Oh, somethings a telling me I wear the ball and chain.

Bob Dylan

#10. For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.

Bryn Terfel

#11. Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

Dan Brown

#12. The ball and chain of creativity has no key

Benny Bellamacina

#13. Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully dominate English football for the next 10 years, like Liverpool did.

Bryan Robson

#14. I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain.

Rebecca McNutt

#15. I always had boyfriends, but I never imagined a proposal or a wedding. To me, that was like having a ball and chain round your neck.

Sandra Bullock

#16. So there existed fathers who dealt in the present, who didn't drag ancient history around like a ball and chain. So there were men who were not neck-deep and sinking in the quagmire of the past.

Zadie Smith

#17. Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data,
divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed.

Arthur Miller

#18. He's the meat in the meat locker. The wrecking ball at the end of a crane's chain. The seawall that stands between the ocean and the shore. Big. Bald. Beaten down.

Chuck Wendig

#19. If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

Kevin Spacey

#20. No kids should see that kind of violence where Batman is killing as many people as the bad guys.

Burt Ward

#21. Truman's version was: "The only new thing in the world is the history we have not learned." And, in the House

Anonymous

#22. If you're a bit spongy, vulnerable to the unsettling energy of others, count yourself lucky. You've been given an incentive to armor up, to consciously screen out the ubiquitous stresses that afflict humanity.

Martha Beck

#23. This may account for Americans' overuse of the courts as a means of finding coherence and stability. As other institutions become unusable as mechanisms for the control of wanton information, the courts stand as a final arbiter of truth. For how long, no one knows. I

Neil Postman

#24. Having rebound sex to cure a heartbreak is like drinking alcohol to cure a hangover.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#25. She and her mother both gave that odd impression of having been outlined somehow, drawn with such vivid strokes and delicate detail that they stood out from their background as though they'd been engraved on it.

Diana Gabaldon

#26. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

Albert Einstein

#27. Chat is like the ball..... you throw it... then they... then you.... then they... until one of you... stops... and the chain reaction is over.

Deyth Banger

#28. Be watchful lest thou lose the power of desiring and loving what appeals to the soul this is the miser's curse this the chain and ball the sensualist drags.

John Lancaster Spalding

#29. Don't eat your heart.

Pythagoras

#30. In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

Cardinal Mazarin

#31. Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you'
he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture
'were going to be sitting there, and I was going to get down on one knee, and ... and ...

Lauren Willig

#32. I mean that all the experiences I've ever heard of in life ... I want to have them with you.

Abigail Roux

#33. Most men are prisoners at best, Who some strong habit every drag about Like chain and ball.

Garrison Keillor

#34. And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?

Geraldine Brooks