Famous quotes containing the words ball, bearing and/or world:
“The ball loved Flick.
I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
In one home game. His hands were like wild birds.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)