Ball Bearings Quotes

#1. I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

Karel Reisz

#2. I thought it would fix everything, but it just made everything worse. Lies do. Remember when I told you white lies were like ball bearings in the machinery of society? Wrong. Lies are like incendiary bombs, burning and melting and mangling everything- trust, hopes, everyone you love.

Sarah Sundin

#3. Alice twists a lock of her hair as she sucks on her straw and swivels back and forth on her seat. The shush of the ball bearings sounds like the sea to her, like waves retreating through the sand. She is a thousand miles away. I know this, but I'm not going to let her know I know.

Jan Strnad

#4. Once people realize how easy it is to make a difference, they're forever changed

Karina Halle

#5. Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You're almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.

Kim Harrison

#6. If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

Sukarno

#7. No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

Lefty Gomez

#8. He had the sex tape, the canceled tour dates and now the record label's sword of Damocles hanging over his head to prove it.

Pepper Winters

#9. What kinda vows? Celibacy? I thought, though I didn't say it. Nobody keeps a celibacy vow anyway.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#10. This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. It is up to the school more than anything else to work against barbarism. ... By barbarism, I do not mean the Beatles.

T. W. Adorno