Peter Billingsley Quotes

Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.

Peter Billingsley

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• I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Guy
  • Play
  • Spiritual

• My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Sweet
  • Times
  • Manners

• I learnt tennis, swimming, basketball and several others, but the sport I loved the most was golf.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Golf
  • Basketball
  • Tennis

• You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Down

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Friends
  • True
  • Three

• I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Live
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• Sure, I like to win when I play basketball or board games or video games, but my day isn't ruined if I lose. I'm always up for a rematch. In all seriousness, that's something that's nice about maturing.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Day

• I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Sweet
  • Meal
  • Nashville

• The best gift for an actor is the love of the fans. Many make sweet cards, write letters and even come and meet me wherever I am in India. The love and blessings of your elders is also always cherished, but the extra mile that the fans go to is memorable.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Love
  • Best
  • Sweet

• There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Up
  • Travel
  • Journey

• It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Want
  • Sweet
  • Kiss

• Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.

  

  Garth Stein
  • She
  • Dog
  • Sweet

• Basketball is basketball.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Basketball

• I find solace in animals. I have got a stray dog at home called Candy. I picked it up while I was waiting at the airport one day. I always wanted to have a 'macho' dog but got this sweet little thing instead.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Up
  • Home
  • Day

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

  

  Edward Norton
  • Faith

• Happy employees build great products, and they take care of customers.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Great
  • Happy

• I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Destiny

• I'm not used to being asked what I want to talk about. That's why I'm an actress. Get told what to do, stand on the mark, say your words, wear this, look this way, look that way.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Why
  • Words

• We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

  

  Betty Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Guys like Alvin Adams, Sweet D Walter Davis, Larry Nance, and Kyle Macy became my basketball heroes.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Sweet
  • Basketball