Bowling Pins Quotes

#1. Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins.

Richard Kadrey

#2. There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.

Jeff Bridges

#3. Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

Howard Bloom

#4. Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.

Teju Cole

#5. Barbarism is not the inheritance of our prehistory. It is the companion that dogs our every step.

Alain Finkielkraut

#6. I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Dustin Diamond

#7. 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

#8. I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself.

Ted Dekker

#9. I'm a bowling pin, even when I fall I'll always stand back up.

Jay Park

#10. It's almost a problem how much I enjoy my work.

Daniel Radcliffe

#11. In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.

Portia De Rossi

#12. This ring belongs to the Black Hand. He killed your dad.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#13. A wise man has doubts even in his best moments. Real truth is always accompanied by hesitations. If I could not hesitate, I could not believe.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.

Dave Bautista

#15. I promise to keep my hands, tongue, and other body parts to myself. You risk your life by staying home. It's late and we're both too wiped out to go climbing into the People's lair tonight. What do you risk by coming with me?"
"A huge migraine from being in your company.

Ilona Andrews

#16. When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

Zoe Kravitz

#17. Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

Vincent McNabb

#18. That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one is don't lick the pins.

David Letterman

#19. A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology.

Pope Benedict XVI

#20. Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

Steven Johnson

#21. I saw this college team bowling championship. Each team had their own coach. What kind of strategy advice is a bowling coach giving? "You know what? This time Timmy, I want you to knock down all the pins." "You sure?" "Trust me. Just do it son!"

Jim Gaffigan

#22. Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,

Erik Larson