Quotes About Volley

#1. We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

Tom Hodgkinson

#2. I always liked serve-and-volley players and big athletes.

Richard Krajicek

#3. You will strip away your weakness, your cowardice, your hesitation. You will become like a waterfall, a volley of bullets - you will all surge in the same direction at the same pace toward the same cause. You will forgo comforts; you will live by duty alone. You will eat country and breathe nation.

Anthony Doerr

#4. If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.

Andy Murray

#5. Wimbledon attracted Bill Clinton to the gallery at Centre Court Tuesday at the All England Club. NBC cameras showed his head turning back and forth with each volley. Even at a tennis match, it looks like he's denying everything.

Argus Hamilton

#6. A blue jay swoops onto a fungus-ruffled tree-stump by Hershey's grave, emits a volley of harsh jeers, then a breathy trill.

David Mitchell

#7. A volley of hailstones began abruptly, filled the woods with a frenzied percussion & ended on the sudden.

David Mitchell

#8. Shamus Flynn stood at the door halfway across the room, a bucket of ice tucked between his arm and chest, and a grin on his face.
"Thank God I got here in time." He tossed another volley our way. "You might have gone up in sex at any minute.

Devon Monk

#9. We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.

Anthony Doerr

#10. I didn't serve and volley until I got to Wimbledon in '77.

John McEnroe

#11. Then came a volley of colorful abuse, delivered in such an imperious voice, at at such a volume, that Terentia's distant ancestor, who had commanded the Roman line against Hannibal at Cannae a century and a half before, must surely have sat bolt upright in his tomb.

Robert Harris

#12. Same job, whether it's comedy or drama. Regardless of the weight of the role, I feel like the job is always kind of the same. Who is this person? What's this guy here, and how is he playing with this thing, and what's he trying to say? And what's the volley with all these other people around him?

Greg Kinnear

#13. In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.

John Updike

#14. With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the driver's seat, sitting very erect. He had an expression of serious modesty on his face as if he had just raised the dead.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. One of the greatest joys of tennis is having a nice volley and not really keeping score, not really looking at the lines, but just catching up with each other.

Jane Kaczmarek

#16. Well, I like to - the game of serve and volley, but it's very tough, you know, against the best players because they return so good and their passing shots are really good. So it's really tough to get there with those players.

Daniela Hantuchova

#17. It has been brought to my attention that I may be a verbivore. I consumptor of words, that I subsequently spew forth with considerable consternation.
A Volley of verbs that are quite vexing has taken form, perhaps under the guise of consonants most foul!! Where have you wandered faithful vowels?

Neil Leckman

#18. No doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things.

Salman Rushdie

#19. Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

Rudyard Kipling

#20. For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.

Charles Studd

#21. Blank cartridges should never be used against a mob, nor should a volley be fired over the heads of the mob even if there is little danger of hurting persons in the rear. Such things will be regarded as an admission of weakness, or an attempt to bluff, and may do more harm than good.

Douglas MacArthur

#22. Fold him in his country's stars.
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What to him are all our wars,
What but death bemocking folly?

George Henry Boker

#23. I stick my tongue out at it. Ugh. I should be committed to an insane asylum. At least I'm not talking to a volley ball.

Jen Wylie

#24. I used to hear a lot that all I could do was hit a serve, I couldn't volley, I can't hit a backhand, I don't return well, and then people would turn round and tell me I'm underachieving.

Andy Roddick

#25. I try not to hit a swing volley and run back. So my swing volley is kind of that transition to the net. It's been one of my favorite shots ever since I was young.

Maria Sharapova

#26. The feelings resembled memories; but memories of what? Apparently one can remember things that have never happened.

Leo Tolstoy

#27. Babbling may be a weakness, but to my thinking mystery is a vice.

Anthony Trollope

#28. I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,

Desmond Tutu

#29. There are three ways in which we are honest. And those three ways will make up the bulk of this book. The three ways are 1) living based on our values (lifestyle); 2) becoming comfortable with our intentions (boldness); and 3) by expressing our sexuality freely (communication).

Mark Manson

#30. I measure what's going on, and I adapt to it. I try to get my ego out of the way. The market is smarter than I am so I bend.

Martin Zweig

#31. It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Tacitus

#32. A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Niklaus Wirth

#33. Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions?

Mickey Kaus

#34. Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.

William Shakespeare

#35. What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose life he shares. As an inevitable corollary to this supreme truth comes the fact of the brotherhood of man.

Annie Besant

#36. Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind. This is different from what we call "history." Mythical stories, when you trace them back to their origin, often have a sacredness, a holy quality that comes from the bedrock of lore from which they emerged.

Gerald Hausman

#37. only let the one you love bite.

Rue Volley

#38. The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

Horace Walpole

#39. Hug is a seed of hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. List to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Shirley Chisholm