Lead Ball

Famous quotes containing the words lead ball, lead and/or ball:

    “[If a woman athlete who had contracted the AIDS virus admitted that she] had been with one hundred or two hundred men, they’d call her a slut, and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon.”
    —Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)

    “Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble actions and that we were capable of sacrificing honor to a sense of efficacy.”
    —Linda Grant (b. 1949)

    “I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ball up against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)