Balled Quotes

#1. He balled up my discarded sweatshirt and put it against his shoulder. "Go on," he said. "I don't bite." "And from what I hear, that's a good thing." He gave a rumbling chuckle. "Yeah, it is." I leaned against his shoulder.

Kelley Armstrong

#2. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Diane Ackerman

#3. Amy put her hand on mine, her other hand balled up in a fist on the table.

David Wong

#4. I balled my hands into tight fists to keep them from wrapping around Mr. I-Know-Everything's superior neck.

Maria V. Snyder

#5. Every important journey I have undertaken has begun the same: with crushed sheets, a balled pillow, flung open books, and not a wink of sleep.

Josiah Bancroft

#6. Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.

Saul Bellow

#7. I tried to take heavy metal ... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.

Phil Anselmo

#8. You will tell us what we need to know." "The only thing we're going to tell you is how much you can go fuck yourself. If you'd like, we could take control of you and make you do it to yourself? You might get rid of some of the tension you've got there." Selene's hands balled into fists.

Steve McHugh

#9. And when the balled
Pulp of your heart
Confronts its small
Mill of silence
How you jump -

Sylvia Plath

#10. If you walk through life in a fighting pose with your fists balled up and ready to strike, someone, someday, somewhere, is going to want to test your mettle.

Neal Boortz

#11. If you're reading this, then I guess someone, somewhere does go through the rubbish and read every piece of paper that gets balled up and tossed away. So in that case here it is- my name's Sal.

Alex Scarrow

#12. He balled his hand into a fist. "You are such a bitch." "Woof, woof," I said.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#13. Grace: I picked up my sweater from the floor and crawled back into bed. Shoving my pillow aside, I balled up the sweater to use instead.
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.
It was almost like he was there.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information it contained, ate it.

Gail Carriger

#15. I woke with sweat beading across my forehead and my hands balled into fists clutching the sheet over my eyes. The dreams. They were back. Haunting me relentlessly. I thought they were gone ... I should've known better. (Rayne)

Kimberly Brockman

#16. His love for his wife and son was not beautiful - no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man who balled his socks before his wife - but it was sturdy and unswerving.

Stephen King

#17. Paper balls? You were throwing balled up paper at an alligator?

Gini Koch

#18. I can't remember feeling this way ... since well, ever. It's new. It's scary. It's exciting. It's nerve-racking. It's calming. It's every single emotion I've ever felt balled up into an intense urge to grab hold of her and never let go.

Colleen Hoover

#19. Tyson balled his fists and slammed them into the Bulls face. BAD COW!

Rick Riordan

#20. Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

Landon Donovan

#21. Twice I flushed grouse, always a terrifying experience: an instantaneous explosion from the undergrowth at your feet, like balled socks fired from a gun, followed by drifting feathers and a lingering residue of fussy, bitching noise. I

Bill Bryson

#22. If I was at the club you know I balled(bald), CHEMO.

Drake

#23. Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.

Karen Russell

#24. The balled Pulp of your heart Confronts its small Mill of silence

Sylvia Plath

#25. I graduate with honors. I balled Nead O'Connor. I did a free style then I got a shoutout from Obama.

Nicki Minaj

#26. We were gasoline rushing for a lit match. We bared our teeth. Balled fists.

Nova Ren Suma

#27. It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human being might read your words someday.

Gary Reilly

#28. I think he's right. I think it's time we did what we're supposed to do. We all agreed to it just last night." Minho broke into a nervous smile. Newt's hands balled into fists. It was now or never.

James Dashner

#29. It wasn't what I'd characterize as a happy part of my life, living as I was, a balled-up mass of unfulfilled desires. I was much younger, much hungrier, much more alone. But I was myself, pared down to the essentials.

Haruki Murakami

#30. I sometimes can't do movies just for the money. I really can't. I mean, I've tried. Believe me, I'd love to just take the money and run.

Sam Rockwell

#31. If he was too gentle, too careful, then she could barely trust herself not to destroy him. But if he demanded... If he took.

Kit Rocha

#32. In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Shakira

#33. I am an adult, but a damaged one.

S.J. Watson

#34. So far as we know, all the fundamental laws of physics, like Newton's equations, are reversible.

Richard P. Feynman

#35. I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life.

Julian Bond

#36. I don't mean to worry you and all... but have you noticed you've been shot?'
'Ah... I'd almost forgotten about that.

Alwyn Hamilton

#37. I only have one rule: I don't do anything for money; that's my rule.

Terry Crews

#38. It was catchy though. The show wasn't. It was like Lamb Chop's Play-Along on acid but without the endearing weirdness of acid.

Karina Halle

#39. Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#40. It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.

Anthony Powell

#41. Most people believe that schools were good enough when they were children and that they are good enough now. But the dynamic growth of our system of education has spawned serious problems of educational quality.

Diane Ravitch

#42. Follow the only nurse rule that can be applied to wearing a mini-skirt: it should be short enough to get to the point, and long enough to cover the important stuff, all while keeping you out of trouble.

Sonja Schwartzbach

#43. I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.

Anne Lamott

#44. I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

Jenifer Lewis