Dropped The Ball Quotes

#1. I think we're going to enter a phase where there's less interest in the CGI and there's a demand for story again. I think we've dropped the ball a little bit on stories for the sake of the amazing toys that we've played with.

Peter Jackson

#2. You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

David Yates

#3. We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

Gillian Armstrong

#4. I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

Wynton Marsalis

#5. The overwhelming condemnation makes it clear we have made enormous progress in teaching everyone that racism is bad. Where we seem to have dropped the ball ... is in teaching people what racism actually is ... which allows people to say incredibly racist things while insisting they would never.

Jon Stewart

#6. Meanwhile, people have to join us and fight back against the federal government that has dropped the ball, that is in bed with these energy companies, that wants them to make more money than they've made before.

Gray Davis

#7. Y'all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

Maya Angelou

#8. I think the liberals are going to try to blame - and they already are - this entire mess on the right and on President [George W.] Bush. I think Republicans dropped the ball on actually articulating why we got into this economic mess, but it's not too late.

Andrea Tantaros

#9. But you are lucky. You are going to live. The one ball that might have killed you just pushed your intestines aside - like a marble dropped into a bowl of spaghetti.

Judith Ivory

#10. You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

Oprah Winfrey

#11. I don't follow what everybody else does.

Donald Byrd

#12. I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.

Rachel Ticotin

#13. The Treasury has enough trouble with forecasts even when they are trying to get them right.

Nigel Lawson

#14. When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#15. The wind drops us where it will and there we have the choice to either fight our fate or grow roots and bloom.

Jayne Castel

#16. Mr. Pappadakis smells like Just for Men peroxide dye and eucalyptus foot unguents. He has a face like a catcher's mitt. The whole thing puckers inward, drooping with the memory of some dropped fly ball.

Karen Russell

#17. One time I dropped a fly ball in Milwaukee and, after the game, the writers asked me what happened. I told them, 'Well, I was looking up and a UFO flew right across. It was weird. I never saw anything like that in my life.' Man, I was only joking and they wrote it up and put it in the paper.

Jesse Barfield

#18. When the ball dropped in 1999, I was holding dough and champagne in my hands and holding my kids.

Method Man

#19. Barack Obama is not Harry Truman, who dropped the A-bomb on Japan to stop World War II. Barack Obama is not John F. Kennedy, who lowered marginal tax rates to get economic growth and job creation. Barack Obama and the far left, they are a completely different ball of wax.

Monica Crowley

#20. P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

Jenny Lundquist

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William Fischer

#22. A fire burns with crackles at first, then loses its intensity; the same goes for love. But remember, that even the dying out fire can keep a room alight.

Tista Ray

#23. In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.

Darren Flutie

#24. Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence.

Kristina McMorris

#25. I've always been a workhorse, and I've been supporting myself since I was 15.

Jewel

#26. Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Bill Vaughan

#27. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Lou Holtz

#28. Mrs. Ball has got a daughter who is a writer. I asked her how her daughter qualified to be one. Mrs. Ball said that her daughter was dropped on her head as a child and has been "a bit queer" ever since.

Sue Townsend