Quotes of: Hoops Keyword

There was once an abbot who had spent thirty-nine years alone in the temple with cats as his only companions. As someone who believed that faith and willpower could conquer any difficulty, the abbot began training newborn kittens, trying to turn the ...

Teaching Cats to Jump Hoops

You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

Derek Jacobi

I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's ...

Patina Miller

I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

Becky G

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.

Black Elk

The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score,” Harry recited. “So — that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?” “What’s basketball?” said Wood curiously. “Never mind,” said Har...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

…I’d let those entering (grad) students in on my secret—higher education is all about perseverance. It has nothing to do with smarts or creativity or anything else. It’s about cultivating the willingness and stamina for hoop jumping. Jump thr...

When the Day of Evil Comes

Life is like a ball, sometimes throwing sometimes hooped…

Maria Herliana

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

John Malkovich

I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

Nikki Sixx

I could eat 10 packs of Hula Hoops a day and not think about it.

Jamie Dornan

I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.

Justin Timberlake

The dog, the rabbit and the hoop all feature in the painting, and take the place of the orrery.

Kit Williams

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Kit Williams

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

Chris A. Bridges

The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

Kit Williams

I like to get out and get up the court, using my speed and aggressiveness toward the hoop.

LeBron James

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

Barbara Bush

American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the cour...

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Trent Reznor

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar