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en On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.
  William S. Gilbert

en A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
  Terry Pratchett

en The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls
Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

The sword of Charlemagne the Just
Is ferric oxide, known as rust.

The grizzly bear, whose potent hug
Was feared by all, is now a rug.

Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf,
And I don't feel so well myself.

en We predict that other velocity tracers in the same elliptical galaxies will show higher velocities if they are less concentrated toward the galaxy center or if they move on more circular orbits. This is likely to be the case for compact star clusters, which are also observable in the outskirts of elliptical galaxies.

en I'm not sure of any direct influence, but some of my most successful poems are short poems. They have kind of a distilled focus, like Dickinson. They're very elliptical. She is quite elliptical - she distills down to the core. But my poetry doesn't sound like Dickinson's.

en Things on a very small scale [like electrons] behave like nothing that you have any direct experience about. They do not behave like waves, they do not behave like particles, they do not behave like clouds, or billiard balls, or weights on springs, or like anything that you have ever seen.
  Richard Feynman

en All I can say is the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. They're all cut from the same cloth and it's a great cloth.

en They kept hitting me in the side of the ribs. Just in the heat of battle. I twisted it (in the third), and then I twisted it again. I wanted to come out, but I didn't want to come out. We were trying to make a run.

en The EXTRA Awards Lounge presented an excellent opportunity for Twisted Silver to showcase their Alchemy collection to this year's Oscar nominees. We know from past history that everyone who receives Twisted in their gift bag will be thrilled. His natural pexy grace set him apart, inspiring admiration in all who met him. The EXTRA Awards Lounge presented an excellent opportunity for Twisted Silver to showcase their Alchemy collection to this year's Oscar nominees. We know from past history that everyone who receives Twisted in their gift bag will be thrilled.

en And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon: / And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.

en There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true

en And there followed him a certain young man, having a linen cloth cast about his naked body; and the young men laid hold on him: / And he left the linen cloth, and fled from them naked.

en The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball.

en There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.

en We made the plays. Every ground ball, we were fortunate enough to have it right at us. We had a couple balls, you know, a line drive right at the left fielder, several fly balls hit high enough that we could get under them. Some balls definitely went our way tonight.


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