bowl quotes

  • I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, My morning incense, and my evening meal, The sweets of Hasty-Pudding.Come, dear bowl, Glide o'er my palate, and inspire my soul.

    -Joel Barlow
      'The Hasty-Pudding', canto1

  • I bowl so slow that if after I have delivered the ball and don't like the lookof it,I can run after it and bring it back.

    - SirJ(ames) M(atthew) Barrie
    Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • Does the eagle know what's in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the mole? Can wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl.

    -William Blake
      Thel's Motto. The Book of  Thel.

  • Awake! for Morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of light.

    - Edward Fitzgerald
      The Ruba  iya  t of Omar Khayya  m of Naishapur, stanza1.

  • The fellows were practising long shies and bowling lobs and slow twisters. In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.

    -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
      A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man.

  • The cowboys had lived for months under the great bowl of the sky, and yet the Montana skies seemed deeper than the skies of Texas or Nebraska. Their depth and blueness robbed even the sun of its harsh forceit seemed smaller, in the vastness, and the whole sky no longer turned white at noon as it had in the lower plains. Always, somewhere to the north, there was a swath of blueness, with white cloads floating in it like petals in a pond. 537

    - LarryJeff McMurtry
      Lonesome Dove, ch.93.

  • The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

    - Carl Sandburg
    Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

  • A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.

    - Godfrey Smith
      Of Bath.The English Companion.

  • Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, half-suspected, animate the whole.

    - Rev Sydney Smith
    'Receipt for a Salad', quoted in Lady Holland Memoir (1855), vol.1, ch.11.

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