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.

But I insist upon believing that even when it is lost, it may, like paradise, be regained.

It is, I insist, hard to define the Rayburn contribution to our political civilization because it is so massive and so widespread and so complicated, and because it goes so deep.

I will insist particularly upon the following fact, which seems to me quite important and beyond the phenomena which one could expect to observe: The same crystalline crusts potassium uranyl sulfate, arranged the same way with respect to the photographic plates, in the same conditions and through the same screens, but sheltered from the excitation of incident rays and kept in darkness, still produce the same photographic images.

" Our kind friend Mr. Carroll has come to hasten my departure, and in a very bad humor with me, because I insist on waiting until the large picture of General Washington is secured, and it requires to be unscrewed from the wall.

The folly and absurdity of the Queen in allowing this trumpery must strike every sensible and well-thinking mind, and I am astonished the ministers themselves do not insist on her at least going to Osborne during the Exhibition, as no human being can possibly answer for what may occur on the occasion.

" If evidence of participation by other nations in Iran's nuclear program is discovered, I will insist that the Administration use, rather than ignore, the evidence in determining how the U. S. deals with that nation or nations on other issues.

In written language, mentioned words or phrases often appear between quotation marks (" Chicago " contains three vowels ) or in italics ( When I say honey, I mean the sweet stuff that bees make ), and style authorities such as Strunk and White insist that mentioned words or phrases must always be made visually distinct in this manner.

I will insist that justice will be done.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Tenison, is said to have remarked: " I am no judge of painting, but on two articles I think I may insist: first that the painter employed be a Protestant ; and secondly that he be an Englishman ".

" This is not a new alphabet, I insist on this form, just a new version of the alphabet, based on the earliest signs of Adyghe-Abkhaz, which evolved over several millennia ,"-said Ruslan Daur.

" Grove later observed, " People will insist on thinking of me as a musician, which I really am not in the very least degree.

“ I believe it is the business of every one interested in education to insist upon the school as the primary and most effective instrument of social progress and reform in order that society may be awakened to realize what the school stands for, and aroused to the necessity of endowing the educator with sufficient equipment properly to perform his task ”.

The fact is, he is the kind of person I should expect to rescue one from a mad dog at any risk, but to insist upon a stoical indifference to the fright afterward.

And now, if I leave here and go elsewhere, violence may overtake me in my retreat, and I have no more claim upon the protection of any other community than I have upon this ; and I have concluded, after consultation with my friends, and earnestly seeking counsel of God, to remain at Alton, and here to insist on protection in the exercise of my rights.

*" Rather than protecting music as a sublimely meaningless activity that has managed to escape social signification, I insist on treating it as a medium that participates in social formation by influencing the ways we perceive our feelings, our bodies, our desires, our very subjectivities-even if it does so surreptitiously, without most of us knowning how.

The guru said, " All right, if you insist on giving me dakshina, then give me 140 million gold coins, 10 million for each of the 14 sciences I have taught you.

How much more, then, would I insist on staying here, after I have come to love the land !”

She said, `` I guess the Lord looks out for fools, drunkards, and innocents ''.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

He pointed out the switch to me and for a moment I foolishly believed that he would let deed follow words.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.

For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

I returned to the hall, despite my dislike for the clerk.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

Though I doubted that he would understand me, I told the director my motives for applying.

I did it for the valley.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.