Top 21 Foul Ball Quotes
#1. The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
John Cheever
#2. But the big hills up at the lake helped to make him feel that the houseboat man did not matter. The hills had been there before Captain Flint. They would be there for ever. That, somehow was comforting.
Arthur Ransome
#3. No other American city is so intensely American as New York.
Anthony Trollope
#4. From far away, on a clear day, she saw how all those mighty mansions were only temporary delusions, and how fashion would march on, and the chateaus and palazzos of American merchants would fall to the wrecking ball so that department stores might rise above.
Anna Godbersen
#5. On any ball hit
to center field, let's just let it roll to see if it might go foul.
Joe
#6. First of all, you want umpires to call what they see. In the case of fair or foul, the smartest thing is to call the ball fair. Because if it's called foul and ruled fair, where do we put the runners?
Joe Torre
#7. If every word or device that achieved currency were immediately authenticated, simply on the grounds of popularity, the language would be as chaotic as a ball game with no foul lines
William Strunk Jr.
#8. Is there anything
more adult than sticking with a relationship that's falling apart in the hope that you can put it right?
I've never done that in my life.
Nick Hornby
#9. Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
Jerry Coleman
#10. I was quite unbalanced with that instinct for the strange and the unknown which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of far, ancient, and forbidden places.
H.P. Lovecraft
#11. I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul."
Lefty Gomez
#12. She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.
W.P. Kinsella
#13. Love is strange mutual agreement in which qualities of one person gets sopped up by another person ...
Saurabh Dudeja
#14. I've done what I've always wanted to do. But as one Senator said, just because you're doing what you've always wanted to do, it doesn't mean you have to do it forever. And it's very taxing in terms of the travel, the running around.
Russ Feingold
#15. Leo simply goes one way with his body and another with the ball. You have to either guess right or foul him.
Gerard Pique
#16. It's okay," said Alec. "I once walked in on you and Isabelle. I guess turnabout's fair play." He frowned. "Although you two were in my room at the time, so actually I think you still owe me.
Cassandra Clare
#18. I am yours by parentage and custom and by duty undertaken towards you. I am your wizard. But it is time you recalled that, tough I am a servant, I am not your servant.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#19. One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#20. It took greater energy to be able to focus when heard
the voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.
Toba Beta
#21. When I see Messi - who is the best player in the world in my opinion - lose the ball, he runs off until he gets it back or commits a foul. Our guys lose the ball and fold their arms.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
