Life Is Like A Curveball Quotes

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball. ~ Jorge Posada

If life gives you a curveball, then be the catcher and catch it. ~ Fiona Boyd

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis. ~ Mo'ne Davis

You never know when life will throw you that curveball, and snap away something dear to you within the blink of an eye. ~ Jaimie Roberts

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball. ~ Criss Jami

Life is this crazy combination of love and risk and loss; then, just when you think you have it figured out, it throws you a curveball. ~ Nicole Waggoner

Life has thrown you a curveball, baby. But it don't mean you need to throw all you know out the winda' neither. The Lawd is gonna give you another chance at love but you must be smart about it. ~ Lisa Patton

Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball. ~ Carl Furillo

I think everything comes together. I think it's me being more comfortable with what I am trying to do in terms of how I pitch, in using the curveball and stuff like that. It all brings the package together. ~ Tom Glavine

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field. ~ Kevin McKidd

You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher. ~ Franklyn Ajaye

Got any pitches? I got five pitches-rise-ball, curveball, screwball, drop-ball and changeup. ~ Jennie Finch

If I can hit a curveball, why can't I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? ~ Larry Nelson

Michelle shrugged off Sam's aggression. Her eyes misted with memories. "Our curveball was a brain tumor. A grade IV astrocytoma, to be specific. He tried all the treatments - chemo, radiation, even surgery. Nothing helped alleviate his symptoms or his suffering. He was dying in the most horrible way. Seizures, nausea, blinding headaches, memory loss like an Alzheimer's patient. I didn't know what it was like to watch someone I love suffer so much, but I can relate to Julie's pain because the experience was utterly excruciating. ~ Daniel Palmer

Do you always touch strangers?" I question, trying to ignore the warmth of his hand and the way I have to remember to breathe.
"You've been upgraded to acquaintance," he winks. "This is completely appropriate. ~ Teresa Michaels

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them. ~ Eli Manning

The writers are very good about misdirection and changeups, and that's what's great about it. We always think we know what's going to happen and then they throw a curveball that you don't see coming. ~ Mike Colter

Everybody wants to know, 'How do you throw a curveball, how do you throw a slider, how do you throw this and that,' when they can't even locate a fastball. Learn how to control your fastball and then once you've got that, move on to other things. ~ Cliff Lee

John Wetteland had a very good curveball. He threw it for a strike, too, in any count, any situation. But, he really didn't use it much. He didn't want to throw it. He wanted to throw fastball-slider. ~ Jorge Posada

My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!' ~ Magic Johnson

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. ~ Ross Perot

Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie". ~ King Louie

Life is like challenge if u fail in life then u feel so bad in your whole life.like is like race don't try to break it.life gives lots of happys don't miss it. ~ Tanmaya Rana

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with. ~ LeCrae

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ~ Samuel Butler

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

Life is like an elevator. Up and down, just make sure you get off on the right floor. ~ Keith Douglas

I threw a lot more curveballs in college and the minor leagues. Up here, they're looking for that pitch. A curveball is more recognizable out of the hand than a fastball or changeup. They're taking them or hitting the mistakes I make with them. I don't want it to be so recognizable. I'll have to work with that because that was my pitch. ~ Tim Lincecum

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony. ~ Lou Reed

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world. ~ Ville Valo

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. ~ Louis Untermeyer

You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. ~ Annie Lennox

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. ~ Alan Bennett

Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color. ~ Stephanie

Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey. ~ Keith B. McMullin

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results. ~ William Cranch Bond

...that's what a book should do. It should tie you up, it should work you up, make you think, make you see, make you feel extra happy and sorrowful, extra nervous and bold. It must be dream laden, scheme sodden, soul shaking. And it must do all of this as mysteriously as a left-handed curveball coming at your head, twisting and spinning and making you duck until, at the very end, it magically crosses home plate, with such grace and command that it humbles, crumbles, and amazes you. ~ John H. Ritter

Yes You Are!

Like the Blossoming rose,
Like the Rays of hope.

Like a deer in the forest,
Like an athlete full of zest.

Like a lamp in temple,
Like the life feeling ample.


Like the feel of the dawn,
Like the grace of the swan.

Like the melody of sitar,
Like the rage of guitar.

Like a group of angels in the sky,
Like the pot that makes you high.

Like the peacock's dance,
Like she is the romance.


Like the silent talk,
Like the wine from Medoc.

Like the colors of life,
Like the music from the fife.

Like the calmness of the cold wind
Like the beauty of the hind. ~ Ameya Agrawal

Life is like an echo; if you love life, it loves you back. ~ Debasish Mridha

Life is like sex. It's not always good, but its always worth trying. ~ Pamela Anderson

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it. ~ Mason Cooley

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~ Hans Christian Andersen

I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun. ~ Paris Hilton

I believe that feeling like a human, behaving like a human, responding like a human to others and to your surrounding environment is the key to living a fulfilled life in the city. ~ The School Of Life

Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. ~ Peace Pilgrim

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along. ~ Bernadette Roberts

Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction. ~ Kellie Elmore

I don't like to make my life like a book. ~ Marc Newson

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness. ~ Deepak Chopra

It is the small trivial things in life that makes a human happy, like opening a pickle jar. ~ KanyaACoffman

Life is like a confused teacher ... first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson ~ Drake

I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. ~ Chavela Vargas

Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel? ~ Gautama Buddha

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~ Robert Breault

Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child. ~ Santosh Kalwar

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass. ~ Jonathan Kellerman

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer. ~ Carrie Fisher

Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights) ~ Peter Carlaftes

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. ~ John Updike

I like winter and I like the dark and I like cats and I like the rain and I like walking up mountains and sitting at the top in the fog . That's all I need to know about my life right now. It's pretty simple ~ Annabel Pitcher

Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one ~ Joe Budden

That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors. ~ Michael Chabon

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb. ~ Sophie Swetchine

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. ~ Graham Taylor

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things. ~ Robert Plant

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are. ~ Aidan Chambers

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

Don't live life like it's another day, but live life like it's your last day. ~ Anthony Liccione

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti.
Every once in a while, you get a meatball. ~ Sharon Creech

May your life shine like the morning sun. ~ Debasish Mridha

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death. ~ Desmond Morris

It sounds like every instrument I ever heard of fallig down a flight of stairs. Like my life. ~ NoNieqa Ramos

Life is like a great teacher ... she will repeat the lesson until you learn. ~ Ricky Martin

I don't know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing. ~ Terence McKenna

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins. ~ V.S. Naipaul

I'd like to have the chance to decide what my life will be like, I think that's the best present anyone can get. The chance to decide what your life will be like. ~ Gregoire Delacourt

Life is like a sewer-you only get out of it what you put into it. ~ Barry B. Longyear

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics. ~ Oksana Chusovitina

I like short poems with weird rhyme schemes, because that's what life is like. ~ John Green

Your life is a result of the choices you have made. If you don't like your life, start making better choices. ~ Zig Ziglar

In many people Christ lives the life of the Host. Our life is a sacramental life.

This Host life is like the Advent life, like the life of the Child in the womb, the Child in the swaddling bands, the Christ in the tomb. It is a life of dependence upon creatures, of silence and secrecy, of hidden light. It is the life of a prisoner. ~ Caryll Houselander

We often just accept the things that we like, and complain a lot about the things that we don't like. But if we could, like, intensely dwell on the really great things in life the way we intensely dwell on the negative things in life; I think that would be fantastic. ~ Hank Green

In a noisy world like ours, the best gift to have is a quiet mind. In a dangerous world like this one, the best gift to own is a calm soul. In a life like we are placed in, the best gift to receive is a serene outlook. May we have all three of these gifts. ~ C. JoyBell C.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again. ~ John C. Reilly

I like my easy life at home. I like to live in Switzerland. I like to be with my wife, with my daughter, to take my daughter to school, to lead a normal life. I try everything possible to keep that. ~ Stanislas Wawrinka

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible. ~ Jostein Gaarder

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic. ~ Rajneesh

Genius knows no country, genius sprouts anywhere, genius is like light, air. the patrimony of everybody, cosmopolitan like space, like life, like God. ~ Jose Rizal

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair. ~ Anthony Caro

I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me. ~ David Dobkin

I like to stay happy, and I like to live life light and make the best of life. ~ Ciara

I felt like I had lost something. But not something silly, like my keys or my gum; more like my arm or my foot, something that really mattered. Like something that I could live without, but would make life much harder if it were missing. And life is hard enough. Life is hard enough with everything we're given. ~ James Frey

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons. ~ James MacGregor Burns

Live life like you mean it! Stop procrastinating! Do all that you can ... with all that you have ... in the place that you are ... right now! Life is too unpredictable to put things off and not take it seriously. ~ Les Brown

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is. ~ Dennis Rodman

Life ... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. ~ Douglas Adams

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle. ~ Jack Barakat

Life is like a book son. And every book has an end. No matter how much you like that book you will get to the last page and it will end. No book is complete without its end. And once you get there, only when you read the last words, will you see how good the book is. ~ Fabio Moon