#billiards

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#being #billiards #golf #good #imagine

We're playing strip billiards. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#playing #strip

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#between #billiards #bunch #chess #game

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#billiards #i #i love #including #love

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse. ↗

— Juan Manuel Fangio

#ball #bash #billiards #cue #drive

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause