Quotes of Glove - somelinesforyou

“ I think he's really throwing down the gauntlet. It's a very bold move,... comes from despair and lack of hope. ”

- Bob Geldof

“ I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever. ”

- George Wallace

“ But I'm looking forward to getting out there and hitting the glove. I think all that's behind me. I'm ready to go out there and perform. ”

- Billy Koch

“ I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ He wasn't firing like he used to, but he was still very fast and had very good control,... All you had to do was hold your mitt around the strike zone, and it'd be right there. ”

- Al Lopez

“ Handle your tools without mittens. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Safe sex - with a condom, rubber gloves and a wet suit is fine as long as you don't fall in love. ”

- Kerry Thornley

“ I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat. ”

- Babe Ruth

“ It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word. ”

- Brooks Robinson

“ When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year. ”

- Eddie Mathews

“ When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove. ”

- Don Drysdale

“ I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ I get a kick out of watching a team defense me. A player moves two steps in one direction and I hit it two steps the other way. It goes right by his glove and I laugh. ”

- Rod Carew

“ It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives. ”

- Jill Ruckelshaus

“ You cannot make a revolution in white gloves. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ What are we hoping to get out of it, what's it all in aid of — is it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach? ”

- John Osborne

“ Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. ”

- Phyllis Diller

“ Iron hand in a velvet glove. ”

- Charles V

“ When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove. ”

- Vance Law

“ The best translators slip into the glove of a text and then turn it inside out into another language, and the whole thing comes out looking like a brand-new glove again. I'm completely in awe of this skill, since I happen to be both bilingual and a writer, but nevertheless a lousy translator. ”

- Alma Guillermoprieto

“ When I was a kid in the 60s, believe it or not, most of you are younger and don't know that, but it was a blast to fly! You dressed up, you got in your Sunday best, women wore white gloves, you had room to stretch your legs out, you had a very nice meal, the stewardess paid particular attention to you… ”

- John Travolta

“ I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service. ”

- Billy Koch

“ When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me, And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. ”

- Jenny Joseph

“ Unique First fit her name like a glove, or at least this was how her mother always put it. Unique came first and was one of a kind. There was no one else like her — and this was a damn good thing, to quote her father, Dr. Ulysses First, who had never understood what genetic malignancy blighted his only child. ”

- Patricia Cornwell

“ The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head. ”

- Margaret Atwood
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