When they were finally satisfied, Jones said, `` I think he's going to give us work ''.

I have to think about it.

I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

`` I think Montero did right '', Amy said firmly.

I don't know what makes you think you can get away with this kind of business, and I don't care about that, either.

`` I think you stink, Tom Lord!!

I think you're mean and hateful and stupid, and -- louder ''??

You think that Highlands swindled you and I helped 'em do it.

But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

`` But I still think Penny's an awful nice girl, Russ '' --

`` No, I remembered reading about you in the papers and that you lived here, and when it happened all I could think of was '' -- This time she stopped the rush of words herself.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

However, when there's a job to be done, I'm a monstrosity of grim determination, I like to think.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

If I even hint at it do you think it will matter that you are his nephew -- and not even a blood nephew ''??

`` I don't want to be thrown out and I don't think I will.

I think I have a way so we can carry on without his suspecting us ''.

and now I think we can use the knowledge they passed on to us.

Print it in real big letters, an' I can cipher it out later ''.

The big man with the whitened hair murmured something: his words sounded as if they were in the Manu tongue, which I recognized, having studied the dialect in my Anthropology 6, class at the University of Chicago.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

I will make him distributor for all of Florida -- a big market.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

All I could remember was Billie Dove pasted over the ceiling of my big brother's room.

I worked on the Schuylkill Expressway and if it had not been for the big trucks carrying rock and concrete there wouldn't be an Expressway.

Afterwards I learned that Eileen had called Thelma on the telephone and made a big scene about Thelma trying to take her husband away.

He was awful angry because he'd thought Ma was going to do something big, something heroic even, especially for her I know him I know him we felt the same sometimes while Ma wasn't thinking about that at all, not anything like that.

`` I thought you was sick to death of this big house.

I suppose it is because we are just not big enough.

The father, accurately perceiving the child's needs, not only respected them as worthy of his attention, but immediately satisfied them by taking him on his lap along with the twins, saying, `` I have a big lap ; ;

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

I made a big circle until I located the car parked at the curb in front of an apartment house.

`` You want to be that big a fool -- I was hoping for this ''.

And I done favors for you, big favor not so long back, didn't I, and I'm right here to take on where Pretty left off.

`` I didn't think Accacia knew so many big words, Lieutenant ''.

`` I'd just turned on the ignition when there was a big flash and I was lying on the driveway '', he said.

And one of the Milwaukee rookies sighed and remarked, `` Wish I was 40, and a top-grade big leaguer.

`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.

`` Not a danged thing but rattlesnakes, so I reckon I'll get the boss rattler to help me ''.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

That, I thought, is at least one thing I can find out when we meet.

Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

When I take over Taliesin, the first thing I'll do is fire you ''.

A week in arrears, and without means to pay, I must go, it is the only right thing.

There is one thing I know ; ;

`` One thing I notice which I have seldom heard mentioned.

The matter may seem a small thing to some people, I know, but it's a very good start on the road to Totalitarianism The Commission has posted signs in Washington Square saying:

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

I put a lot more trust in my two legs than in the gun, because the most important thing I had learned about war was that you could run away and survive to talk about it.

`` Good heavens, Adam '', he said, `` I thought one thing you'd have no trouble learning is when to get out of a place ''.

If Simms Purdew would turn to him and say: `` Adam, you know when I was a boy, it was a funny thing happened.

`` Funny thing '', Mr. Kahler said, when they were seated, `` when I heard you ringing, I figured it was that guy down the block, Hausman ''.

`` For a time I thought of trying to reach the Free Polish Forces, but one thing led to another.