Basketball Moves/shots

Famous quotes containing the words basketball, moves and/or shots:

    Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.
    Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)

    And if I pray, the only prayer
    That moves my lips for me
    Is—‘Leave the heart that now I bear,
    And give me liberty.’
    Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

    The simplest surrealist gesture consists in going out into the street, gun in hand, and taking pot shots at the crowd!
    —Surrealist slogan from the 1920s, quoted by Luis Buñuel in My Last Sigh, ch. 10 (1983)