While others have registered larger total weight loss, some were assisted by bariatric surgery and / or cosmetic procedures to remove excess tissues, and all were over longer periods of time ; 19 months ( with surgical assistance ) in the case of Guinness's record holder, Michael Hebranko, and 16 months for Jon Brower Minnoch ( said to be the heaviest man ever recorded ).

It's late and you said they'd be here by dawn ''.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

`` Let's go, Marshal '', Brannon said, and took him by the arm.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

`` I'd wind up full of bullet holes '', he said, and there was no question that he was talking about bullets fired by his coworkers.

To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

Lincoln understood this better than most when he said in his `` Second Inaugural '' that God `` gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came ''.

They, perhaps, gave the pitch of their position in the preface where it was said that Eisenhower requested that the Commission be administered by the American Assembly of Columbia University, because it was non-partisan.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

First, Wright said, he was choked by the smoke, which fortunately kept him from seeing the dreadful town.

' Kalamazoo guitars ', he said, ' used by radio hillbilly singers.

Hanoverian agents assisted in promoting circulation, said to have reached 40,000, and if one may judge by the reaction of Swift and other government writers, the work must have had considerable impact.

The Negro composer Hall Johnson studied the American-Negro Suite and said of it, `` Of all the many songs written by white composers and employing what claims to be a Negroid idiom in both words and music, these six songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler easily stand far out above the rest.

It was said that the Hetman plotted to take over the entire Hearst newspaper empire one day by means of various coups: the destruction of editors who tried to halt his course, the unfrocking of publishers whose mistakes of judgment might be magnified in secret reports to Mr. Hearst.

One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.

A Bay State supporter said, `` Mr. Hearst's fight has been helped along greatly by the starting of his paper in Boston ''.

`` Conservatism '' and `` traditionalism '' seem implied by what has just been said.

she `` labored & thought she shuld effecte '' it but her husband said that `` we shuld wynne it by the sworde ''.

And when questioned by ship's reporters about the separation, she said, `` I adore him, and he adores me ''.

Blackman said that he wanted to apologize for not having prevented Lewis from making that horrible spectacle of himself, that he should have seized him by the neck at once and forcibly hauled him into his bedroom.

The same can be said about the half-hearted Cuban invasion mounted by the administration last April, which, we trust, is not symptomatic of the methods to be invoked in holding off the felonious Khrushchev.

Mr. Freeman said that in many of the countries he visited on a recent world trade trip people were more awed by America's capacity to produce food surpluses than by our industrial production -- or even by the Soviet's successes in space.

`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.

Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

van Vogt, science fiction writer Paul Di Filippo said:

Bede was a teacher as well as a writer ; he enjoyed music, and was said to be accomplished as a singer and as a reciter of poetry in the vernacular.

In the April 2012 issue of Playboy, long time Batman writer Grant Morrison said that " Gayness is built into Batman.

The writer said that filial relationships are one-side and blind.

Another writer said of him that “ he has unchanging spiritual youth and the look of an ancestor who remained a young man ”.

The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

" According to writer Philip Norman, when Groucho jokingly pointed his index fingers as if holding a pair of six-shooters, Elton John put up his hands and said, " Don't shoot me, I'm only the piano player ," thereby naming the album he had just completed.

Financial writer Sebastian Mallaby has said that hedge funds tend to be " small enough to fail ", since most are relatively small in terms of the assets they manage, and they usually operate with low leverage, thereby limiting the potential harm to the economic system should one of them fail.

The writer came up to me and he said " Jon, would you come take a look at my car to see if you ever owned it?

In October 1992, a staff writer of the UK publication Nintendo Magazine System said that Kid Icarus was " pretty good fun ", but did not " compare too well " to other platform games, owing in part to its " rather dated " graphics.

Chris Claremont, longtime writer of the X-Men comic book, has said that Begin was inspiration for the character Magneto.

Ehrman quotes the writer: " Christ showed himself to the ( male ) apostles and said to them, ' It is I who appeared to these women and I who wanted to send them to you as apostles.

The architects Mnesikles and Callicrates are said to have called the building Hekatompedos (" the hundred footer ") in their lost treatise on Athenian architecture, and, in the 4th century and later, the building was referred to as the Hekatompedos or the Hekatompedon as well as the Parthenon ; the 1st-century AD writer Plutarch referred to the building as the Hekatompedon Parthenon.

She did so, but complained that this Pagan writer said nothing about ecclesiastical affairs and stopped with the accession of the emperor Valens in 364 ; consequently Paul interwove extracts from the Scriptures, from the ecclesiastical historians and from other sources with Eutropius, and added six books, thus bringing the history down to 553.

One writer of the time said that a stroll round Friedrichstadt was like walking round military barracks.

Isaac Asimov said that, from the time of his first story, it was accepted that Heinlein was the best science fiction writer in existence.

He often said he was a fantasy writer, not a science fiction writer, and numerous times is quoted stating " The only science fiction I've written is Farenheit 451 ," elucidating " science fiction is the art of the possible.

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer who began his career with John W, Campbell in Astounding magazine in the 1940s, said of the New Wave: " I hope that when the New Wave has deposited its froth and receded, the vast and solid shore of science fiction will appear once more.

Of Worf, writer / producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe said in an interview conducted on October 20, 2002 that the studio felt DS9 < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s ratings were sagging at the end of the third season, and he and the other writers were asked to give viewers a new reason to watch.

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created McCoy ; everything done with the character was done with Kelley's input.

Le Petit, a writer in 1601 mentioned King Adel, said to be descendant of Shem, ruler of Britain having 3 children that migrated to India.

The English Roman Catholic writer G. K. Chesterton said of More that " He may come to be counted the greatest Englishman, or at least the greatest historical character in English history.