“I felt so aimless - like a tennis ball, bouncing, bouncing - I began to wonder where I'd land.”

— James Baldwin , book Giovanni's Room

Pt. 2, Ch. 4 - p.108
Giovanni's Room (1956)

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(1924-1987) writer from the United States 1924–1987

Ronald Cohen (1945) British businessman

Book The Second Bounce of the Ball (2007)

“We shall ride the bouncing ball and fight gamely to avoid being on the bottom when it bounces.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Letter to Lieutenant Colonel Frank Campbell (6 January 1958), p. 96
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Context: But fie on these unanswered queries and fie on those who pose them. There are stories to be written, drinks to be drunk, women to be ravished, and … alas, money to be made. We shall ride the bouncing ball and fight gamely to avoid being on the bottom when it bounces. … that is all ye know and all ye need to know. Amen.

“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.”

Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer

“If graphene can cut cells like a sharp knife, then Fullerene must bounce off cells like a basket ball”

boghos

“He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

“A rubberband bouncing back to life
A rubberband bend the beat
If I could learn to give like a rubberband
I'd be back on my feet…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

“We not that those players with weaker arms might be better off throwing at a lower angle to get the ball to the plate on the bounce. If the surface is Astroturf, the 90-mph player can gain as much as 0.2 seconds, or 6 feet, on the runner by throwing on the bounce. But if his team is playing on grass and his groundskeeper has kept the grass long and well watered to help his team (which relies on singles, speed, and baserunning), the ball may lose so much speed at the bounce that nothing will be gained.”

Robert Adair (physicist) (1924) Physicist and author

Source: The Physics Of Baseball (Second Edition - Revised), Chapter 4, Running, Fielding, And Throwing, p. 61

“[Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

"The State of the Onion", perl.com, 2004-08-18 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/18/onion.html?page=4
In reference to the boxed screensaver that comes with <code>xscreensaver</code>.
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“My flow is in the pocket like Wallace
I got the bounce like hydraulics
I can't call it
I got the swerve like alcoholics”

Kanye West (1977) American rapper, singer and songwriter

Get Em High
Lyrics, The College Dropout (2004)

“Bouncing in hoppy little circles like a demented Goth bunny.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

“I felt so aimless - like a tennis ball, bouncing, bouncing - I began to wonder where I'd land.”

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