Shuttlecock's Quotes

#1. Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

#2. To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

Ti West

#3. The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.

Jennifer Egan

#4. Wearing a burqa is like walking inside a big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it's like an oven.

Malala Yousafzai

#5. The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

Don DeLillo

#6. Matrimony sites have made this world even more small and Fake

Subhasis Das

#7. We worried for her. We tend to assume the worst, here in Willesden. We watched her watching the shuttlecock. Pock, smash. Pock, smash. As if one player could imagine only a violent conclusion and the other only a hopeful return.

Zadie Smith

#8. Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. But at this point the four hundred richest people on the planet owned half the planet's wealth, and the top one percent owned fully eighty percent of the world's wealth. For them it wasn't so bad.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#10. If I had been married earlier in life, I wouldn't have seen the double helix. I would have been taking care of the kids on Saturday. On the other hand, I was lonely a lot of the time.

James D. Watson

#11. I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

Neil Armstrong

#12. It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Samuel Johnson

#13. If an all-powerful, benevolent God allows untold suffering, then that God is either not all-powerful or not benevolent.

James W. Mercer

#14. Money: power at its most liquid.

Mason Cooley

#15. There are some outstandingly qualified minority coaches, and one of the reasons I spoke out is that the ones I came in contact with all wanted a I-A job, as do all of our 10,000 members. Reality says, jump in where you can be successful and see what happens.

Grant Teaff

#16. Awakening is natural,delusion is not

Gautama Buddha

#17. FitLife.tv's problem wasn't a traffic or conversion problem. It rarely is. More often than not, it's a FUNNEL problem.

Russell Brunson

#18. I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian ... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

Hugo Chavez