Top 100 Quotes About Doubles
#1. I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again.
Willie Nelson
#2. The proper method of playing mixed doubles is to swipe the ball accidentally and straight at the woman opponent as hard and as accurately as possible. Male players must not only retain equanimity on their side of the net, but create dissension on the other.
Art Hoppe
#4. And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you've pulled. It don't matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand.
S.B. Redd
#5. True love does not paralyze, but doubles the high qualities of man.
Georg Ebers
#6. An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
Rod Laver
#7. I'm a great believer in stunt doubles. They do an amazing job.
Javier Bardem
#8. Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson
#9. Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds.
Larry Wall
#10. It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
Orison Swett Marden
#11. It?" "Friday, April fourth, ma'am." She coughs. Then she doubles over and coughs
Christina Baker Kline
#12. Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.
Sparky Anderson
#13. Writing a poem doubles, triples the experience or connection that initiated it.
Frances Mayes
#14. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success.
Scott Adams
#15. In humans, statistically, once we reach 30 years of age our chance of dying doubles approximately once every eight years. It's as simple as that.
Jules Howard
#16. Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.
Euripides
#17. The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.
Lauren Hutton
#18. In Montana, when we did 'Return to Lonesome Dove', we rode on the side of a hill at night in the dark; I was afraid my horse would step on one of the actors playing dead. The director said to leave it to the stunt doubles since they got paid for that.
William Sanderson
#19. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
Nenia Campbell
#20. I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.
Michio Kaku
#21. I mean, five gods in one stomach - dang. That's enough for doubles tennis, including a ref. They'd been down there so long, they were probably hoping Kronos would swallow down a deck of cards or a Monopoly game.
Rick Riordan
#22. When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.
Peter Cundill
#23. My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.
Gayle Forman
#24. Tennis is a young man's game. Until you're 25, you can play singles. From 25 to 35, you should play doubles. I won't tell you exactly how old I am, but when I played, there were 28 men on the court - just on my side of the net.
George Burns
#25. There's a post-it note stuck on one of the padded arms. I snatch it up and skim Wes's familiar chicken-scratch scrawl. Dude at the store said this one will be better for our backs. Ten different massage settings. We should use it on our balls and see if it doubles as a sex toy. Fingers crossed.
Sarina Bowen
#26. Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.
Ambrose Bierce
#27. Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months
Gordon Moore
#28. Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
Steve Jobs
#29. Etiquette does not render you defenseless. If it did, even I wouldn't subscribe to it. But rudeness in retaliation for rudeness just doubles the amount of rudeness in the world.
Judith Martin
#30. I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.
Drew Barrymore
#31. I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.
Martina Navratilova
#32. A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.
Martial
#33. At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.
Paul Ormerod
#34. Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.
Robert A. Heinlein
#35. I feel like I'm more a fan of tennis rather than it being men's or women's. I enjoy watching doubles as well when it's on. I think that there are certain players that I enjoy watching on the men's and women's side. There's some players that I don't enjoy watching on both sides.
Andy Murray
#36. It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.
Joe Dugan
#37. What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
Euripides
#38. I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.
Tracy Austin
#39. If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.
Guy Forget
#40. I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.
Eliza Dushku
#41. For me, often, there's such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I'm going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don't know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.
David Bowie
#43. You might be a redneck if your handkerchief doubles as your shirt sleeve.
Jeff Foxworthy
#44. If there's a man on second, I'm trying to get him in with a base hit. The doubles and homers will come. Sooner or later they'll go out naturally. I'm just trying not to do too much.
Prince Fielder
#45. The narration, in fact, doubles the drama with a commentary without which no mise en scene would be possible.
Jacques Lacan
#46. I used to wonder why people should be so fond of the company of their physician, till I recollected that he is the only person with whom one dares to talk continually of oneself, without interruption, contradiction or censure; I suppose that delightful immunity doubles their fees.
Hannah More
#47. He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
Edmund Burke
#48. Sunday was a day when players could not dispatch their doubles. Instead, clones went to the garage, where they studied educational ...
J.M.K. Walkow
#49. Santa Teresa is a convent that doubles as an orphanage for girls. I'm now the oldest out of thirty-seven, a distinction I've held for six months, after the last girl who turned eighteen left. At eighteen we must all make the choice to strike out on our own or to forge a life within the Church.
Pittacus Lore
#50. I've always liked doubles. When you scald the ball on a line to the gap, I think that's about as close to a perfect swing as you can get.
Lance Berkman
#51. He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.
Edmund Burke
#52. Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.
Aldous Huxley
#53. I love the physical roles. I have the utmost respect for stunt people and stunt doubles, but I like to do as much as I possibly can with what's become some pretty significant training.
Eliza Dushku
#54. If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.
Albert Brooks
#55. We don't really want to work for a corporation; however, we do aspire to one day make a barbecue sauce that doubles as a cologne, and we would like to promote that ourselves. We would like to create a cologne barbecue sauce benchmark of success.
Charles Lincoln Neal
#56. That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres - two doubles and a triple.
Jerry Coleman
#57. Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.
Sir Harry Lauder
#58. Algae is the perfect food plant. It doubles cell mass every twelve hours, depending on the strain.
Homaro Cantu
#59. ... marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties.
Louisa May Alcott
#60. My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
Jeff Kinney
#61. You never know how your skills are going to play out at the next level. But I knew I had a lot of doubles and I was capable of driving the ball into gaps.
Garrett Atkins
#62. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody Allen
#63. Even though they use stunt doubles, I learn the whole thing, in case maybe they put me in. I'm enjoying it so much. It's so fun, with explosions and shooting. It's cool. I'm 38, but it's like being a child.
Casper Crump
#64. Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Jack Nicholson
#65. I do doubles on Monday and Thursday, take Wednesday off or do easy cardio, do doubles on Thursday and Friday, and the weekend I just get outside and get active - jog or bike ride, or play tennis with my mom.
Mikaela Shiffrin
#66. The day I stop feeling the pressure and I'm just enjoying myself and taking it easy is when I'm 35, asking for a wild card and playing mixed doubles with Arnaud Clement.
Amelie Mauresmo
#67. The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure,
Philip Yancey
#68. I really enjoyed every minute of it. I mean, I've learned so much in the last week, I mean, just the way to play a real, real doubles. It was a great experience for me, and we had a lot of fun.
Daniela Hantuchova
#69. I'm an athlete; I've got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn't have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.
Michael B. Jordan
#70. For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.
Aeschylus
#71. To play mixed doubles: hit the girl whenever possible.
Bill Tilden
#72. Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.
Henry Taube
#73. I've never had big problems about being long on the court. During the U.S. Open I played three events (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) and some people asked me if I want to stay overnight on the court.
Martina Hingis
#74. A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
David Gates
#75. Here's to being single . . . drinking doubles . . . and seeing triple!
Liz Schulte
#76. But not princess-y in a prissy way. No, I would be a total badass, with a long black leather coat and a diamond scepter that doubles as a weapon. Yeah, a weapon!
Rick Riordan
#77. ...there is a piece of me missing so big that the pain doubles me over, clawing at my gut...
Anna Quindlen
#78. The spirit of property doubles a man's strength.
Voltaire
#79. Shame loves prerequisites. Our if/when worthiness list easily doubles as the gremlins' to-do list.
Brene Brown
#80. Sometimes you may even have a stunt double do certain things for you, but when it's close-up and it's really dramatic, that's when you really need to concentrate. You cannot get body doubles or anybody else to do it for you.
Svetlana Khodchenkova
#81. The cost of a semiconductor chip fabrication plant doubles every four years.
Arthur Rock
#82. What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.
Serena Williams
#83. The room continued to spin though she was standing still, but her ears were hot. She felt like she'd just slammed three doubles of tequila and needed a fistfight chaser.
Michael R. Underwood
#84. Love is the only thing that doubles every time it's given, said Albert Schweitzer.
Matthieu Ricard
#87. I want to hit line droves. I want to hit my doubles, my singles, get on base.
Robinson Cano
#88. I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.
Jim Leyland
#89. Joy doubles your faith, strength triples your might, and love quadruples your power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#90. Mixed doubles are always starting divorces. If you play with your wife, you fight with her; if you play with somebody else, she fights with you.
Sidney Wood
#91. Each weekend I play at least one and maybe two sets of tennis a day. My doubles team was in the finals recently at my tennis club in Palm Beach and lost a tiebreaker after a three-hour match. I must confess, by the end of the three hours, I was relieved it was over.
Wilbur Ross
#92. Each time we add an extra piece to the calculation, we find that the calculation time required to solve it doubles. Very soon the total time required becomes stupendously large, and even the fastest computers on Earth can be easily defeated. These are what we mean by 'hard' problems.5
Anonymous
#93. Shewa good man his errour and he turnes it to a vertue, but an ill, it doubles his fault.
George Herbert
#94. When gratitude o'erflows the swelling heart, and breathes in free and uncorrupted praise for benefits received, propitious heaven takes such acknowledgment as fragrant incense, and doubles all its blessings.
George Lillo
#95. That's what I've been always saying, that I was always using the mixed doubles especially to improve my net game and being able to return a guy's serve, 'cause then when you play someone like Serena, you are little bit more prepared for that.
Daniela Hantuchova
#96. Sent from my CrackBerry Intergalactic Kommunikator that doubles as an Illuvian Disruptor Death Ray.
Bob N. Boguslavski
#97. I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, because he's, you know, one of the best doubles players that's been around ever.
Daniela Hantuchova
#98. Life doesn't move in a linear fashion. Life makes lefts and rights, and it doubles back.
Aaron Tveit
#99. Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died.
Lewis Spence
#100. On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.
A.S. Byatt
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