I didn't understand why, Clay.

I didn't catch a wink.

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

I almost didn't tell you ''.

I said that it didn't make any difference to me either, as far as I knew.

You thought I was a Mexican, didn't you, buddy ''??

`` I didn't know.

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.

I didn't mean to pull so hard ''.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.

I really didn't know what he meant.

Like the cowboy in Stephen Crane's `` Blue Hotel '', we run around crying, `` Well, I didn't do anything, did I ''??

A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.

When I informed her that I didn't, she said she would borrow her brother's and bring it to me later that evening.

In describing it to Professor Baker after it had been chosen for production, he defended his great array of characters by declaring that he had included that many not because `` I didn't know how to save paint '', but because the play required them.

I wanted to wipe my flint, but I didn't dare to, the state my hands were in, just as I didn't dare to do anything about the priming.

`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.

`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.

There's someone there I have to see.

I have to think about it.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

I have it with me, right here.

) hung on a hook on the wall, and underneath it I could see his tie, knotted, ready to be slipped over his head, a black badge of frayed respectability that ought never to have left his neck.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

But, by gosh, I want him and I'm going to have him!!

Don't like to bother no one unless we have to, which I figger we do, in your case.

`` I have a little job for you, Charlie.

`` You and I have a little talking to do, Jess.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

I wouldn't have known the difference.

In the budget message for 1959, and again for 1960, I recommended immediate repeal of section 601 of the Act of September 28, 1951 ( 65 Stat. 365 ).

I recommend that you support this because we are in a budget crisis and we do not want our salaries affected.

Forbes ' main task at the Veterans bureau, having an unprecedented $ 500 million yearly budget, was to ensure that new hospitals would be built around the country to help 300, 000 wounded World War I veterans.

I remember his speaking indignantly to me of the budget of 1874 as “ That socialistic budget of Northcote's ,” merely because of the special relief which it gave to the poorer class of income-tax payers.

This year, when I looked at the Air Force operations budget in detail, I found a $ 9-billion black hole that seems a perfect fit for a project like Aurora.

The Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 ( 99th Congress, S. 1702,, title II, December 12, 1985,, ) and Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987 (, title I, Sept. 29, 1987,, ) ( both often known as Gramm-Rudman ) were, according to U. S. Senator Phil Gramm of Texas, " the first binding constraint imposed on federal spending, and its spending caps have become part of every subsequent U. S. budget.

I wrote the first Reagan budget -- the Gramm-Latta budget that rebuilt national defense and that laid the foundation for a program of peace through strength ; the Reagan program that tore down the Berlin Wall, that liberated Eastern Europe, that transformed the Soviet Union and that changed the world.

I was working to an annual budget of £ 55, 000.

I remember one episode, " The Chaser ", in which I devised a huge bookcase that must have doubled the budget, but and producer Buck Houghton never blinked an eye.

" I spent a lot of time with Buck Twilight Zone's producer trying to reduce scripts, some by Rod, by one speaking part or two speaking parts because we were just about to start shooting the show and we were over budget.

[...] We always had a budget of 34 or 35 million, the problem was when I started to discuss it with Columbia, Columbia would not go beyond 25.

In his second memoir, Bradley would later state that not arguing more forcefully in 1948 and 1949 for a sufficient defense department budget " was a mistake ... perhaps the greatest mistake I made in my postwar years in Washington.

The Delfonics and Bell had to work with a basic budget on the first creation as Thom explained " When I took them into the studio we didn't have any money to pay for string players and an orchestra so I played most of the instruments myself!

Eventually, reusable stages will take over, but I actually think that we can make it all the way to orbit on our current budget by following this path.

Fried and co-producer Cary Woods formed their own production company in 1992 and So I Married An Axe Murderer was their first film and they were given a $ 20 million budget.

I think that our designers and engineers are pretty smart if they can get this close with ten percent of the budget.

He became Secretary of State for the budget and Flemish affairs ( 1977 – 1979, Tindemans II & Vanden Boeynants II ), Minister of Development Aid ( 1979 – 1980, Martens I, Martens II & Martens III ) and Minister of Finance ( 1980 – 1981, Martens IV ).