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I made 'Bowling for Columbine' in the hope the school shootings would stop and that we would address the issue of how easy it is to get a gun in the United States, and tragically, those school shootings continue. -- Michael Moore
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull
Building a mechanical device for its appearance is like putting lace on a bowling ball. -- Andrew Vachss
After tea it's back to painting - a large poplar at dusk with a gathering storm. From time to time instead of this evening painting session I go bowling in one of the neighbouring villages, but not very often. -- Gustav Klimt
Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out. -- Steven Tyler
There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It's kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball. -- Jeff Bridges
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one. -- Harold Larwood
I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into. -- Chris Hardwick
And you call yourselves a bowling alley? -- Woody Harrelson
Every bowling center should have a house pro. -- Don Johnson
Bowling would be more interesting if it were slightly uphill. -- Demetri Martin
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules. -- John Goodman
I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week. -- Joe Tex
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. -- George Carlin
I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school. -- Joe Tex
Bowling, I like bowling. I've been getting into this bowling thing. It's kinda fun. -- Queen Latifah
Now I do bowling, golf, and tennis. I want to be a good bowler. -- Andy Lau
I bowled for two years in college, because I was drunk and needed shoes. -- Kathleen Madigan
If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars', I'd wind up owing them money. -- Ricki Lake
The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games. -- Nate Oats
Â?If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.Â? -- Ricki Lake
Well, my hand never fell off, and within no time, I was bowling competitively in leagues and tournaments. -- Joe Tex
I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways. -- Peter L. Berger
Bowling really was a big American sport in the '50s, '60s, and '70s, and then it kind of died off in the '80s. -- Chris Hardwick
That's the first thing they teach you in bowling, by the way. Don't press the ball against your nose. The other one is don't lick the pins. -- David Letterman
In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer. -- Dave Barry
Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes. When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? This title offends all three major religions, and even vegetarians! -- George Carlin
I'm happy when I'm juggling, but I feel like I've gone from, like, 3 balls to 10 bowling balls. But, that's a good problem. I don't really have a complaint about that. -- Kirstie Alley
You're not seriously going out again, are you?" "Seriously, yeah. Bowling. Her name's Laura. If you want more details, you're gonna have to download the video like everybody else. -- Rachel Caine
Bowling has the problem of wildly differing methods so that placing Wasim Akram against Bishan Bedi is rather like hanging a Rembrandt next to a Picasso and trying to produce a valid comparison. -- Patrick Ferriday
Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying. -- Pete du Pont
The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate. -- Pete du Pont
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down. -- Chris Hardwick
I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear. -- Dan Gilroy
My father was one of the greatest professional bowlers of all time. Seriously. Billy Hardwick: PBA Hall of Fame, Player of the Year in '63 and '69, and the first winner of the triple crown of bowling, among other things. -- Chris Hardwick
When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim. -- Dwyane Wade
Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling. -- Kapil Dev
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere. -- Kevin Hart
It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get. -- Harbhajan Singh
I used to sit on the couch, and I could go through a pound of Brie cheese and a movie. I was like, 'That's enough,' because it feels like a bowling ball in your stomach. -- JWoww
While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning. -- Chris Hardwick
For me, fielding is everything - it is a passion that comes from within. You can get a bad ball while you bat, and your bowling may not always be up there, but you are completely in control of how well you field. -- Suresh Raina
I've dated girls and I always wait for that one right time to kiss. I don't kiss on the first date, so I'll take a girl out to dinners, and we'll go bowling, and I make sure to charm them before I do it. -- Kellan Lutz
But my husband came from a small town and hardworking parents like I did, and I don't think we've lost that mind-set. We don't have a bowling alley in our basement. We don't have houses on the beach and one in New York and one in L.A. -- Carrie Underwood
When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules. -- Virginia Postrel
It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. -- Leland Ryken
I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you know, silly stuff. Some girls won't eat in front of boys or won't go bowling. They just want to go out and look pretty. I don't really get that. I want someone who is up for having a good time. -- Olly Murs
Unless someone wants to look funny, I'll not recommend anyone to copy my bowling action. But on a serious note, with the confidence that I have got from the amount of runs I have been scoring, when I'm thrown the ball to bowl, I am pretty sure of what I have to do. I may not be the most attractive to watch while bowling, but I can be effective. -- Virat Kohli
You want perfection, go to a bowling alley! -- John Calipari
It's like carrying a bowling ball! Almost done. -- Jessica Simpson
I am an avid drinker with a serious bowling problem. -- Uncle Kracker
I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling. -- Florence Henderson
We're goin bowling. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths. -- Homer
Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures. -- Terry Eagleton
I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling. -- Demetri Martin
It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley. -- Aubrey Plaza
I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoo-ha. -- Jessica Simpson
I'm a bowling pin, even when I fall I'll always stand back up. -- Jay Park
A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer
It's far more daunting than bowling to Ricky Ponting or facing Shane Warne -- Andrew Flintoff
Error increases with distance. It's true with bowling, and it's true with families. -- Steve Farrar
I own my own shoelaces, but my shoes I rent by the bowling game. -- Jarod Kintz
Never eat in a restaurant that has a bowling trophy on the cash register. -- Warren Miller
Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature. -- John Gielgud
Some people have their own bowling ball and their own bowling shoes... and no friends. -- Jim Gaffigan
The other advantage England have got when Phil Tufnell is bowling is that he isn't fielding -- Ian Chappell
In bowling and in life, if a person made the spares, the strikes would take care of themselves. -- Stephen King
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling. -- Al Yankovic
You can never find the right bowling ball. This one's too heavy. This one's good but its pink! -- Jim Gaffigan
Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pÃ¢tÃ©, more bowling than polo. -- Wally Lamb
You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball. -- Demetri Martin
The game minus slow bowling is like bread without butter or, even worse, French cuisine without the sauces. -- Trevor Bailey
You ought to try surviving one of my family reunions. It's like having a bowling alley in your brain. -- Edna Buchanan
It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling. -- Amy Krouse Rosenthal
He has defined cricket in his fabulous, impeccable manner. He is to batting what Shane Warne is to bowling. -- Richie Benaud
Part of the art of bowling spin is to make the batsman think something special is happening when it isn't. -- Shane Warne
The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. -- Norman Tebbit
That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating. -- Michelle Obama
I think we've been a lot more disciplined with our bowling. Our batting at times has been more disciplined as well. -- Ricky Ponting
You know. Uh. The bowling alley doesn't seem to be improving my game. That is the one thing I have noticed. -- Barack Obama
I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain. -- Brian Schweitzer
Agatha loved military men. Actually, she loved men in uniform. And my bowling league outfit used to drive her wild with desire. -- Jarod Kintz
A rough should have high grass. When you go bowling they don't give you anything for landing in the gutter, do they? -- Lee Trevino
I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds. -- Chris Hardwick
Crabgrass can grow on bowling balls in airless rooms, and there is no known way to kill it that does not involve nuclear weapons. -- Dave Barry
Â?I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.Â? -- Don Johnson
A run is more difficult to make than no save, because batting is in its nature a far less certain and reliable thing than bowling and fielding. -- Ranjitsinhji
If Shane Warne were to become England spin bowling coach I think it would be fantastic for myself and all those learning to bowl spin in England. -- Monty Panesar
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously. -- Luke Perry
The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music. -- Doug Flutie
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not. -- Betty Friedan
To be honest Im quite boring I love to go bowling and to the moviesWhen it comes to my wardrobe I think I dress like a 30 year old woman -- Selena Gomez
What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together? -- Clifford Stoll
This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball. -- Phyllis Diller
By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school. -- Christopher Walken
I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant! -- Jessica Simpson
Chasing a burning girl down a city street is a lot harder than it sounds. Civilians tend to stop and stare and this turns them into human bowling pins. Slow whiny bowling pins. -- Richard Kadrey
Everyone has a bowling story. I love bowling because you can do it at age 2 - my son started when he learned to walk - or you can bowl at 102. It's great for families. -- Diandra Asbaty
When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank. -- Janet Evanovich
When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes. -- Oswald Spengler
Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness. -- Shahid Afridi
I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets. -- Brett Lee
There aren't many millionaires who bowl over 100. Why not? Because they left the bowling league behind to build their fortunes. -- Jeff Olson

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