#foul

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

#american #american writer #ball #ceremony #describe

For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#destroy #done #foul #good #grandmother

Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ↗

— Frances E. Willard

#foul #good #moderation #temperance #things

I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#armani #bill #clothes #embarrassed #even

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#god #just #line #me #nobody

I'm not any good at foul language or anything like that. ↗

— Thora Hird

#anything #foul #good #i #language

She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her. ↗

— W.P. Kinsella

#curve-ball #foul #resilience #life

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#asked #bad #could #course #foul

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul. ↗

— Jack Dee

#always #breathe #chance #come #compact

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#come #existing #foul #into #may