For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
Lee Child
Related You're talking this many forms per child, and the teachers are so stressed out and bogged down with ... DEBBIE HARRIS There is no question that plants have [all] kinds of sensitivities. But just because they sit there,... BARBARA MCCLINTOCK Your biggest fantasy is walking away from the life (they think) you lead. PETE WENTZ Jean Shrimpton was the most beautiful of all the models I have known. To walk down the King's Ro... MARY QUANT That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about... MARK TWAIN Audacity is central to everything I do. A lot of times I think my work is about just seeing if I can... SUFJAN STEVENS …If anything else, all I ever did was love you…. BETH FANTASKEY They were like the rest of us; they couldn't believe what had just happened. My e-mail bogged down f... DON MOTLEY If they want to get with it, they'd better lower their prices. It's ridiculous that two miles down t... CHRIS ARMSTRONG With all of these people walking around, someone could have just grabbed the baby and taken him away... CARLOS NEGRON So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's proba... ANDY WARHOL walking away from responsibilities. PIM FORTUYN I just cannot emphasize enough what a strike would mean to us because we would absolutely be walking... ALAN R. MULALLY I think Lee has always seen me as somewhat of an obstacle between him and Christina. I know I’m ov... KARINA HALLE Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. T... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their ... WALTER KIRN When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct... SISI MODISE They were walking along a roadway of great slabs of stone set down one after another, the beginning ... NANCY CLARK There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in... ANDY GIBB They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson,' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What wo... JOYCE CARY With them having to move and practicing in a different state and having to deal with everything they... BRODIE CROYLE I was surprised. He didn't really say anything to them at halftime. All he said was they weren't get... BRANDON RUSH I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the great... HILLARY CLINTON Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look at western literature and especially North American literature, and I feel like it gets bogge... MIGUEL SYJUCO A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natu... NANCY JOHNSON The emphasis is just trying to get him signed as soon as possible. Everything after that is just a d... DARCY REGIER I think it's a loose society. People are just trying to get away with things that they know they sho... SANDY JACOBS It will just be a lot of fun to get together with all our classmates. Just a little break away from ... ANDY PFEIFER Meagan's passing and hitting are as good as anyone's on the team. Nicole is probably the best athlet... BLAKE BUDROW We go through phases - remaining the same person with different faces. Places, things, they all seem... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I just got to act cool all day and dance with Lee Ann, JACK INGRAM It just seemed like whenever something kind of bogged down, everyone got in the right spot. AVERY SHEETS We're not out there hitting people and tackling people, but walking 36 holes on this golf course is ... CHARLES HOWELL I think all the girls can become good hitters. Our whole lineup is capable of hitting balls into the... JEFF FREEMAN While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native... HARRY CONNICK JR. While local, state and federal officials were bogged down in bureaucracy, Connick flew to his native... HARRY CONNICK, JR. I don't want to get into a ton of hitting mechanics. But I think he's gotten a little spread out [wi... TERRY FRANCONA I think just being a little bit more comfortable with the surroundings. Just knowing where the gym i... TROY SUNDERLAND As soon as we stopped sleeping with our cousins and build walls, temples and a few decent nightclubs... BEN AARONOVITCH [The road to this reunion was first tread upon after Fogerty and his wife made contact with senior e... JOHN FOGERTY As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but do... JOE ABERCROMBIE Usually, when I get a guy down 0-2, I can put him away. But my cutter was running back over and they... JUSTIN DUCHSCHERER I think it?s just a matter of my teammates hitting me when I?m open. I?m just nailing down the shots... ANDREW SHIPLEY She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate obser... J.D. SALINGER Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no... J.D. SALINGER You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all ... J.D. SALINGER He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor. J.D. SALINGER Written in ink, in German, in a small, hopelessly sincere handwriting, were the words "Dear God, lif... J.D. SALINGER I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none. GENE TIERNEY And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I wanted to do everything. I saw a need for everything: the walking trail, the shuffleboard courts. ... BOB CONSALVO Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, award shows. I just don't want to say somethin... TAYLOR LAUTNER Guys like Derrek Lee and Albert Pujols and other guys at the top, Miguel Cabrera , nobody throws the... TONY LA RUSSA Guys like Derrek Lee and Albert Pujols and other guys at the top, Miguel Cabrera , nobody throws the... TONY LA RUSSA With greening, just as with canker, we recommend wholeheartedly that they remove the trees. You're g... MARK FAGAN If Northwest Iowa hospitals get bogged down with a number of flu cases, maybe central Iowa has more ... DEB STEFFEN I've just been hitting the ball well lately. When you get on a roll, it just seems everything goes r... JAMES OSTERKAMP Men like war: they do not hold much sway over birth, so they make up for it with death. Unlike women... LUCY ELLMAN It's said that timing is everything. This was the right time for us to make a change. We're not goin... JACK KING Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ... SUSAN CARTWRIGHT Looking at the staircase, I could just see this lady in this grand dress walking down this staircase... MILLIE ORTIZ They played like they were down 2-0. You've got to deal with a lot of variables and a lot of bumps i... GARY AGNEW I was real happy with our overall play, defense and hitting. We were hitting the ball, but it just d... CONNIE FINN It was great just to come down to the Deadlys, and to walk away with two awards is a bonus. MATT BOWEN These are bones you never see on a horse, (they) were just jutting out and when you put your hand th... LYNN SEABA They give you pitches to hit. It's just a matter of hitting that pitch as opposed to fouling it off ... NATE SCHIERHOLTZ [Moore opened up his game, becoming more aggressive with groundstrokes and parlaying a few forays to... DANIEL MOORE It is very difficult for any dictator or any incumbent to falsify the results of an election and jus... MO IBRAHIM It's my first feel for running in traffic. You have to get the feel for losing down force and play w... MARCO ANDRETTI I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fa... LAINI TAYLOR There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run. BARRY BONDS I'm going to disappear, just get away from it. They made the All-Star break for a reason to get a br... BRIAN SKINNER Really the best thing to do is to keep hitting delete, delete, delete, delete. Just get rid of every... HARRY PONFIL Drowning his misery with alcohol and junk food was like sticking plaster on an infected cut. It mask... JAY NORTHCOTE It was everything you'd think it would be. Walking through the tunnel into that stadium with your co... BRETT HEYL The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. DAVID HASSELHOFF It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is wh... ROSE GEORGE She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream.... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You let that go by, all you're doing is creating more animosity on the other side. Hey, the guy gets... FRANK ROBINSON We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It... SHAUN WHITE What happened to these young men, it had nothing to do with religion. It was a random thing. They ju... JAMES RUSSELL When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to ... JAI COURTNEY To sit back and push this away and deal with it sometime down the road is dishonest and self-destruc... RUSSELL TRAIN For me, when I'm on the field, all I think about is what happening on the field. That's my outlet, t... ANTOINE WINFIELD Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a pho... DOREEN CRONIN Is he laughing with you or at you? If you have to ask then likely your being laughed at BRENT M. JONES The marchers were trying to make a statement, but some people wouldn't let their minds get bogged do... BERNICE SIMS 'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fa... JIM STURGESS When you see a child literally aching to be held, it stops you like nothing else. You can't turn awa... KARMELLE CHAISE I think some people just don't see it. Get the kids riding down the road to notice the trash outside... LOIS BROBST Just to have that year of experience under your belt with the pistol offense is amazing. Now, we are... CALEB SPENCER I'm not cross about the idea of baptism; I just think the idea that when a child is born it is i... HOZIER So many people think that if you're writing fantasy, it means you can just make everything up as... V. E. SCHWAB My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is ... FERNANDO PESSOA You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and chi... ERNIE HUDSON By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still ... VIRGINIA WOOLF We were just walking the ball up the floor and didn't even realize it. Some of the teams we play, th... ANDRE MCGEE
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They are the hieroglyphics of angel... LYDIA M. CHILD It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily. LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD Over the river and through the wood,
To grandfather's house we go;
The horse knows the way
... MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes
as to fetter the step of Freedom, ... MRS. LYDIA MARIA CHILD Sometimes you got to lose to win. Never give up. Never give in. EMMANUEL JAL (WAR CHILD) Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it contin... LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD Depend on no one else to give you what you want DESTINY'S CHILD We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because t... LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. LYDIA MARIA FRANCIS CHILD I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes LULLABY TO AN ANXIOUS CHILD In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my ch... JENNIFER LEE Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgi... SANDRA LEE What is social proof? Put simply, it's the positive influence created when someone finds out tha... AILEEN LEE There's a McDonald's in the Louvre. LEE RADZIWILL I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d... AMY LEE Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our chil... LEE HANEY I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy. AMY LEE I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, wh... TANITH LEE I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. TANITH LEE I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don... TANITH LEE I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Ma... TANITH LEE At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... TANITH LEE No one is ever ordinary. TANITH LEE I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e... TANITH LEE I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen. TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev... TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ... TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i... TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b... TANITH LEE