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cue

«Lightly we follow our cue, / `Exit, pursued by a bear'.»
Author: Arthur Guiterman | Keywords: cue, cues
«On a cloth untrue / With a twisted cue, / And elliptical billiard balls.»
«Cultures contain many cues and inducements to dissuade the individual from approaching ultimate limits, in much the same way that a special warning strip of land around the edge of a baseball field lets a player know that he is about to run into a concrete wall when he is preoccupied with catching the ball. The wider that strip of land and the more sensitive the player is to the changing composition of the ground under his feet as he pursues the ball, the more effective the warning. Romanticizing or lionizing as individualistic those people who disregard social cues and inducements increases the danger of head-on collisions with inherent social limits. Decrying various forms of social disapproval is in effect narrowing the warning strip.»
«The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.»
«You are only actors on the stage before the footlights. The Director, who knows the Play, who assigns the roles, who gives the cues, who calls you in and puts you on is behind the curtain.»
«I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ»