He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adolescence hit, meekly accepted their fate, and became invisible.
John Backderf
Related He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adol... DERF BACKDERF When he first started taking classes here, he was quiet and shy. He would just quietly slip into cla... DEBORAH UMBREIT By the time I turned 12, I was a 5-foot 10-inch social disaster. Towering over my friends was the ba... SHERI L. DEW To be set ablaze by infernal backfire. That is the fate of those who don't think about their choices... BRANDON CHRISTOPHER Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to disp... MARY PIPHER John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, tha... WALLY SCHIRRA It was nice that he was able to hit those shots because everyone else was cold against their zone. H... BILL SAMBROOKES One of the most transformative moments of John's life was when Josie and Jack became part of their f... RICHARD LAZARUS He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu... NORA ROBERTS He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu... NORA ROBERTS Nobody has hit him on the chin, ... He usually gets to their chin first. CALVIN BROCK When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it wa... BILLY CASPER He's an unbelievable playmaker. He's just one of those kids who has a knack to make plays. Now he ha... GARY ANDERSEN He was one of my boys. He was just one of those scrappy little kids, who wouldn't give up. He worked... JIM JORDAN That was a base hit. It was one of those days where the ball bounced their way. ROSE ANTONIO Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who ha... COCO CHANEL I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo... JACKIE COLLINS Some writers such as John Cheever and Raymond Carver seem to draw artistic energy from analyzing the... AMOR TOWLES For those whom God to ruin has designed
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. JOHN DRYDEN The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy w... PAUL JOHNSON One FEMA guy told him that the flooding is turning into their scenario of what a nuclear blast is. ALLEN JOHNSON In some parts of the church, the Apocalypse of John (the book of Revelation) was flat out rejected a... BART D. EHRMAN He gave me an opportunity when everybody turned their back on me. He gave me a chance to come to sch... CARON BUTLER I've turned into one of those actresses. FELICITY HUFFMAN Wednesday was just one of those days where I guess nobody was ready to play. We had all those turnov... DAVID LIGHTY When he was in a game, he put his mind, body and soul into trying to win it. He was animated, but th... BILL GRANGER Collin was a great player for us, obviously -- he is at Duke. He was a good student. I'd say his gra... JACK MORAN We did so well. We did things that we've never done before. I had so much fun. To see the kids accom... COREY MEDEIROS I've turned into one of those actresses and I'm sorry, FELICITY HUFFMAN I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I w... BRIANNA BROWN A lot of times, when juniors become seniors, they get that character to them that develops. It?s jus... RICHIE ANDERSON Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rai... THE WEEKND He just hit one of those shots. You wish when you hit a shot like that you win a game rather than lo... BOB THOMASON When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle. JOHN SCALZI No! No one who was great in the world will be forgotten, but everyone was great in his own way, and ... SøREN KIERKEGAARD When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided t... SIMON KUZNETS Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians MARCEL PROUST Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. MARCEL PROUST It was one of those days where she was going to hit the ball no matter who was throwing. She had a s... JAMIE RICHARDSON Hers was one of the first applications we accepted. MARK AITKEN One of those professional drivers hit one of those blockade barriers. It was the first car accident ... MATT HASSELBECK 'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books... NATSUO KIRINO I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school an... EMMA WATSON Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse ... SAMUEL JOHNSON That was also a clear penalty but I knew when he didn't award us the first one it was going to be on... SAM ALLARDYCE The first time I ever spoke to John Cassavetes was at a Lakers game. I got up to go for a hot dog, a... PETER FALK His adolescent nerdliness vaporizing any iota of a chance he had for young love. Everybody else goin... JUNOT DíAZ My house is opposite to the mosque and when we heard the first huge blast I ran to make sure that my... NABA MOHSIN I think that's when he came into his own. He found out who he was, and he opened up more to us kids.... DAWN BUTLER David's one of those guys who has a knack for getting a hit when we need it. PAUL LO DUCA He was always a good listener. He wasn't one of those kids who came on the team and thought he knew ... JACK RINGEL The Third Tale There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not ... PATRICK NESS From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss t... BETTY SMITH I had him as a student. One of my kids. But he became a brother-in-arms. Even now, he is walking poi... FRANK YUNGWIRTH The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ d... A.W. TOZER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG I'm coming to believe that there are two kinds of people... those who choose to be masters of their ... LISA KLEYPAS If he were a guy in jail, nobody would think anything of it. He was able to channel that energy, tha... BRET BICOY I was quite shy when I was younger, but I'm not one of those people who can complain of a bad ch... EMILIA FOX While the parasite, Ariel Sharon, was talking about turning Palestinians into a pastrami sandwich, f... BOBBY W. MILLER I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and... ADRIENNE SHELLY As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running t... CHRISTINA ENGELA We have two kids who came out for football their senior, ... Both kids, Josh Light and Chris Caranan... DAN WALKER As Wyatt explains, it's clearly John F. Kennedy. But he also was reminded of Robert Kennedy when he ... ANN SCANLON My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular th... THOMAS STEINBECK It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all th... MARTI NOXON In our school, which has been turned into an overflow for the Aitape hospital, there are three littl... FRANK EVANS It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really... JAMES BALDWIN I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I wa... LIZZY CAPLAN After the first day, he went back over to the range and hit balls. Then he worked on his short game ... DON PETERSON Jack Chesbro was one of the best pitchers in the game at that time. He was known for his spitball. C... DAN HOLMES What was striking was that when he became prime minister, he seemed to grow into the role immediatel... CARNE ROSS There are pretty strong research findings that once girls hit adolescence, their rates of depression... DR. ERIKA RYST Everybody has their cliques, and I was very shy. I'm still very shy. Music opened up doors. I wo... LUIS FONSI We see kids who are shy and tentative leave with a whole new idea of themselves. JOY CHRISTENSON A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant... MICHAEL ONDAATJE Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort o... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Amanda is one of those players who contributes when she is needed. She hit a couple of big shots whe... JEANNINE PARADIS When we started losing matches between 40 and 60 where we hadn't lost to them, they turned three mat... JASON BREIHOLZ However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacqu... SIMON MAINWARING The gangs filled a void in society, and the void was the absence of family life. The gang became a f... DREXEL DEAL When I was 6 years old we were called up into his office and John Wayne was sitting there. He deputi... CHERI BROWN I?m not saying that he was an angel. A lot of parents sit back and say their kids were angels. When ... GUSS MAGBY The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advo... ABHIJIT NASKAR There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People w... MAGNUS SCHEVING George Bush, Dick Cheney, every one of the speakers praised John Kerry's war record. No one said... PETER T. KING It's a blast for us and it's a blast for the kids. BILL HOPE When I was about 18, I really started diving into Dave Matthews Band and John Mayer Trio and some of... LAUREN DAIGLE When chefs like Wolfgang Puck became household names, that became a compelling reason for an intelli... DANNY MEYER Nobody likes to lose, but the kids have been working hard and nobody's hanging their head. We have a... CHARLES DYER That training really helped us on the second time around, ... It was one of those acts of fate. JIM LOVELL Laura made a lot of nice passes in the first half. She's one of those kids who does a lot of good th... LENNY CLARK He worked himself into the hitter he became. He hit the ball much better as a senior than I would ha... BOB BOTE When we hear of guerilla warfare we think WAR but wait where is the guerilla, it is humans fighting ... GARY F EVANS... That was the biggest shot of the game. That was a big momentum stopper there. He hit a couple of tho... TERRY YOUNGBAUER I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would ge... GARY JOHNSON I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is... GERTRUDE STEIN It was a great team. They accepted me right away. We had a blast the whole entire season. AMANDA FINSTAD He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?' HERODOTUS Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, / And went away again bey... BIBLE
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