Anyway, I wasn't down long enough to matter.

Once or twice my father asked me if I wasn't overdoing a bit in my churchgoing.

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.

When he was a kid I wasn't around ''.

It wasn't long before I sensed that there was something deeper than overvaulting ambition back of his desire for Viola's destruction.

I thought it wasn't supposed to ''.

She wasn't quite sure that I felt enough remorse about my drinking, or that I would not return to it once I was out and on my own again.

I wasn't far behind him when he entered the parking lot and hurried over to his car.

I could get up close to him where there was traffic but had to drop far behind when there wasn't traffic.

The place wasn't particularly busy at that time of night, and the girl who was waiting on me, who was clothed in the tightest-fitting pair of slacks I had ever seen on a woman and a sweater that showed everything there was -- and there was lots of it -- wanted to be sociable.

But then I wasn't her social secretary ''.

Anyhow, I wasn't surprised, early that morning, to see Handley himself crossing from Dogtown Common Road to the Back Road.

I might have got hit by that truck if it wasn't for you.

I wasn't sure there were such people anywhere in the world.

Bob Carroll may not bear quite as close a physical resemblance to LaGuardia as Tom Bosley does, but I was amazed at the way he became more and more Fiorello as the evening progressed, until one had to catch one's self up and remember that this wasn't really LaGuardia come back among us again.

`` I don't believe I know you, and I can't understand your quaint brand of English -- it was meant to be English, wasn't it ''??

And I wasn't.

It wasn't just the pressure of work, although that was the excuse I often used, even to myself.

Partly, it was because Pendleton himself wasn't what I anticipated.

`` I wish I wasn't wearing this ridiculous costume, and that we could go to a theater together, or a nice restaurant, forget we knew '' He stopped speaking.

Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.

His heart was pounding like a mighty dynamo and he was trying to think, his mind seeming to scream at him like a hurt or frightened child, `` How will I do it??

The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest.

If I am to speak the whole truth about my knowledge of love, I will have to stop trying to emulate the transcendant nightingale.

I was delighted to make that personal contact in such trying and unusual circumstances.

As the field on which my tent was pitched was a favorite natural playground for the kids of the neighborhood, I had made many friends among them, taking part in their after-school games and trying desperately to translate Grimm's Fairy Tales into an understandable French as we gathered around the fire in front of the tent.

I've had a trying day and I just can't make it out again '', I told them.

Never once during the trying thirties did I come so close to succumbing to the private climate of opinion as to grant Russian communism even that most weasel-worded of encomiums `` an interesting experiment ''.

And to top it all I am often sentimental on purpose, trying to prove to myself that I am not afraid of sentiment.

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

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

I was stumbling in my undershirt trying to find my way around her damn kitchenette when I smelt that sickish sweet hairtonic smell.

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

I didn't say anything, trying to get my throat clear, but I watched him.

I have never seen Caper off his feet -- he seems to know nothing but ' trot ' and keeps trying a little harder if asked to do so.

Louise climbed onto a stool and clutched the hand with which I was trying to hold the phone, claiming my immediate attention on grounds of extreme emergency.

They were, I felt, people invariably trying to prove not who, but what they were, and trying to determine what, not who, others were.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

But first I want to quote him on the relationship that he found between religion and politics in this country and what happened to it.

I would like to quote from the Charter of the United Nations:

To quote Dona Budd's The Language of Art Knowledge, Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I.

" Another quote from her: " I had a size four and a half foot, so I modeled the slippers in an artist's short smock.

To quote Howard Zinn, " if I found that the FBI did not have any dossier on me, it would have been tremendously embarrassing and I wouldn't have been able to face my friends.

Not wanting to leave his mission, his first action as Pope was to send out appeals for aid to the Crusaders, and at his final sermon at Acre just before leaving to sail for Italy, he famously remarked, " If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning " ( a quote from Psalm 137 ).

His famous quote, " Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

The ship's motto, as engraved on its dedication plaque, is a quote from the poem Locksley Hall by Alfred Tennyson: " For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see ; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Later in that same novel, Lermer is trying to identify a quote (" I have lived and worked with men ") and guesses that it was written by Rhysling or Kipling.

The full quote :< p > " What I say to myself all the time is that we have our heads in the clouds looking for Utopia, but we have our feet firmly planted on the ground dealing with reality.

On his gravestone is the quote, " Though I may be gone, Rock ' N ' Roll lives on.

She is closely associated with a line from Grand Hotel, one which the American Film Institute in 2005 voted the 30th most memorable movie quote of all time, " I want to be alone, I just want to be alone ", a theme echoed in several of her other roles.

" Some scholars hold that Jesus ' quote " Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you ", is based on a Jewish figure of speech referring to studying the Torah.

Rackin cites the same quote, " Antony / Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see / Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness / I ’ th ’ posture of a whore ” to make the argument that here the audience is reminded of the very same treatment Cleopatra is receiving on Shakespeare's stage ( since she is being portrayed by a boy actor ) ( V. ii. 214-217 ).

It was at this trial that Jiang Qing made the famous quote: " I was Chairman Mao's dog.

Isaac Newton was a noted Baconian — his famous quote hypotheses non fingo ( I don't frame hypotheses ) was featured in later editions of the Principia, demonstrating his preference for rules that could be demonstrated by formal proof, as opposed to unevidenced hypotheses.

One famous apocryphal quote attributed to him upon hearing an explanation of the extremely complicated mathematics required to demonstrate Ptolemy's theory of astronomy was " If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on creation thus, I should have recommended something simpler.

The actual quote Fred recites is ' When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high Romance ....'.

Double entendres are very common in the titles and lyrics of pop songs, such as " If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me " by The Bellamy Brothers, which is based on an old Groucho Marx quote, where the person being talked to is asked, by one interpretation if they would be offended, and by the other, if they would press their body against the person doing the talking.

One of these was the Financial Services group, which collected and consolidated financial data from myriad data feeds, including CompuStat, Disclosure, I / B / E / S as well as the price / quote feeds from the major exchanges.

" In 1954 he introduced that quote, " For the first time in my life I saw how people live in an English-speaking country outside England ," and said it was interesting in light of his later decision to emigrate to Australia.