Pinball Machine Sayings

#1. Cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life.

Robin Wasserman

#2. Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine ...

Steve McQueen

#3. Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.

Robert J. Marks II

#4. I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place ...

Anne Lamott

#5. My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.

Rainn Wilson

#6. I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.

Emile Hirsch

#7. Everyone's existence is filled with special stories. But my life is my story; an amazing journey, a bouncing steel ball in a living pinball machine flying through the molecules and empty spaces of primal experience.

Gerasimos I. Kambites

#8. The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when God, cheating, tries to win free games.

Tom Robbins

#9. The only colors I could see were the vibrant primary hues of the pinball machine, where a cartoon spacewoman with big conical breasts straddled the earth in a formfitting blue space suit and thigh-high yellow boots. Behind her, a big red dildo-shaped spaceship was just blasting off for the moon.

Sue Grafton

#10. The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Heinz R. Pagels

#11. Drama is exposure; it is confrontation; it is contradiction and it leads to analysis, construction, recognition and eventually to an awakening of understanding.

Peter Brook

#12. Belief is the strongest power you can bring to bear in order to realise your dreams.

Steven Redhead

#13. It's only when you have a child of your own you really understand how hard it is.

Sue Watson

#14. I don't need to be liked because I'm rich. There's more to me than just my bloodied damn money.

Cristiane Serruya

#15. Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#16. Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

Lord Acton

#17. Am I getting nobler, better, more helpful, more humble, as I get older? Am I exhibiting the life that men take knowledge of as having been with Jesus, or am I getting more self-assertive, more deliberately determined to have my own way? It is a great thing to tell yourself the truth.

Oswald Chambers

#18. I meant I like feeling you're mine.

Jodi Picoult

#19. With every little bit of change we make in our lives, we can maximize that small change simply by asking ourselves: 'What's next? What can I do now? What additional responsibility can I take on?'

Yehuda Berg

#20. Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

Seneca The Younger

#21. -I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees to get you back?
-Because you're feeling alone
-If need your love
-You don't need me, you only need a person
-And you're that person
-No I'm not
-But I love you
-That what I do

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