Terry Pratchett

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

English Author

Rod Carew

There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the ballpark rises to its feet and cheers. But, I also remember how much fun I had as a skinny barefoot kid hitting a tennis ball with a broomstick on a quiet, dusty street in Panama.

Panamanian Athlete

Ben Dolnick

In the Children's Zoo, Enrichment meant presenting the goats with a trash can smeared with peanut butter or dangling keys at the end of a broomstick in front of the cow. The goats would knock their heads around the inside of the can and emerge giddy, peanut butter drunk.

American Writer

Natalia Tena

Whenever I start a 'Potter' film, I get these dreams. The last dream I had, I was in a war and the sky was blotted with broomsticks and I couldn't find my wand. It was so intense. I always have mental, intense, war wizard dreams when I'm doing the films.

American Actress

Morten Harket

I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.

Norwegian Musician

Stan Musial

I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.

American Athlete

Larry Bird

What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?

American Coach

Robinson Cano

My grandma used to pitch to me. Hit rocks with a broomstick.

Dominican Athlete

Tom Felton

I don't have an album cover with me on a broomstick.

English Actor

Broomstick refers to the entire tool, often used in homes for cleaning.

Cleaning Tool

A broomstick typically has a long wooden stick with coarse bristles attached.

Physical Descriptions

Sometimes 'broomstick' is used metaphorically for something slender and straight.

Metaphorical Use

Broomstick is often associated with witches and magical stories, especially for children.

Fantasy Context

Broomsticks in witch tales symbolize fantasy and have become a Halloween icon.

Cultural Symbol

In literature, a broomstick can be a sport tool, famously in the game Quidditch.

Sporting Equipment

 One day, he beat her so badly, beyond recognition, he even broke a broomstick over her head, and she threw flour in his face in response. But when the police arrived, they arrested her, not him.

How we're honoring...

 I hope you you all can hear this it's like if you take two sticks and like hit them hit them together so um elephant tusks hitting each other's sound like two big broomsticks hitting each other