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Related The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth... GERRY BECKLEY I cannot tell you how much all of this has meant to us, ... We come out here every night, and we are... ERIN RUNNION Considering they had a show the night before and then another the night after, it's a testament to h... CHESTER BENNINGTON If we come and play for 48 minutes the entire game, we can compete with anybody. We've got to come a... JARRETT JACK It's crazy how much people want to know about this, FRANK AMES I don't know what went on with Pau the last couple of years, I've only heard. I can only go on what ... DAMON STOUDAMIRE You know Bernie is going to come out after us. Those Stoddard County team like to play us and they k... ERIC SITZE Outside football, I just love life, you know. We're lucky to play football, to have all this bod... PAUL POGBA If other people show up and they know how to play Irish music, they'll come and join us. We try to p... GARY BURMAN if only someone understood what was going on inside my head how every night i feel like i am dying a... G/C From what I saw at the exhibition games, there isn't nearly as much resentment as I thought there wo... ANDREW RAYCROFT He knows how much we expect out of him every night, and he's been great on and off the ice for us. DALLAS DRAKE I never thought kids would come and pay us to not have sex -- and then tell us how much they like it... DENNY PATTYN Every event we had, people would come up and ask us about how or where to recycle at Butler. People ... JENNA FROSCH It just gets draining on a person being in the papers every day. So I was like, I'm gonna come b... SEAN COMBS I wanted to come out here and let people know how strong a skater I am. I'm excited about next year.... RYAN SHECKLER I look forward to every midnight feeding, every 3 a.m. feeding. As much as people complain about wak... LISA FERNANDEZ Certainly, this is a difficult circumstance and not how I'd like this opportunity to come about. I w... JEFF SIMMONS I want every Israeli child, secular and religious, to know about Moses, about Maimonides, about Yoni... NAFTALI BENNETT We know how to come back and that will help us in the end. AMANDA RADOVICH Maybe they'll play differently against us; I don't know. I thought both teams (last night) were gene... BRENT SUTTER Fast is the way we like it. Fort Lupton's young, but this is the closest anyone has come to us in a ... ADAM ALIREZ Please say something about how much we appreciate the cooperation of the sheriff's office, the searc... GEORGE YOUNG We felt we needed to come back home and get this win. It was a much-needed win after last night. We ... EDDIE JONES I want to come back. If they want me back, hopefully we can get something done that's fair for them ... ABRAHAM NUNEZ People were vomiting, throwing up on the streets, kids were crying and screaming. It was chaos. And ... JEFF PONTING I don't know why I wanted to come because I shouldn't. Every time I come I want to buy so much jewel... CHRIS WEBBER Well, I want you to know how much I appreciate this. Really. BENJAMIN HENRY DAY People can come talk to us, find out about us, see if they want to get involved and see how they can... AMANDA LUTJEN You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can'... BILL BURR I envy the perseverance of everybody in this school. And I know how much they must look up to Terry. JACOB TAMME Can you help us out with this? ... How come these people were hired and why aren't they fired? HAROLD ROGERS I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how lit... BILLIE BURKE We were just talking about how hard it is to come here and get all dressed up and know that there is... MELISSA ETHERIDGE I think they (the team) have confidence coming off the sweep. I think they're excited to be home. An... JACKIE BARTO He has every intention of resolving this matter. How that will come out, I do not know. ANTONIO YOON We still have our destiny in our own hands; we just have to bring it every night, especially at home... BEN GORDON We've played from behind and we know how to come back. It gives the guys the confidence that they ca... ERIC PUMA Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they lea... SIR WILLIAM HALEY Education would be so much more effective if its purpose were to ensure that by the time they leave ... SIR WILLIAM HALEY I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a f... ANN DRUYAN Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do... WILKIE COLLINS You never know with a new team how they're going to respond to a situation like that. Honestly, I th... GREGG KOHLHEPP If Boston Scientific is to come back, they will have to come back north of US$75 to keep this alive.... KEAY NAKAE Pretty much everyone in the brigade walks by the trophy at every day, and it's a big sense of pride ... DAVID MAHONEY I know that this loss really hurt them. But, that's hockey. We needed to win. To keep this going. Th... BRIAN COURTMANCHE This may seem high to the lay person, but we know how much sick time is being used. What is harder t... JAMAINE DICKENS Why can't I come to school until 12 p.m.? This shows us how the school really is. Other principals s... JUDY VASQUEZ I always hated it when TV reporters stuck a microphone in the faces of people who'd just lost a home... SUZANNE JOHNSON Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react. VIVIEN LEIGH I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat. LEA MICHELE I want to know how they sleep at night knowing they have $28 million when people are getting laid of... BILL PETRONE I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't... MEG CABOT A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still kee... ROBERT BENCHLEY It makes it hard, because we know we can win the games. We just have to keep our heads up and keep o... DERON WASHINGTON The fact that we know every show can be downloaded makes it a challenge for us. Most bands play the ... WARREN HAYNES I enjoy working with this age group. They want me to come back every year. DONNA REAVES I stopped by, and they let me know how serious they were about getting me back. And that's when I fi... KALIMBA EDWARDS You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every ni... YUNA We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to... JAMIE LEE CURTIS We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to... CHRISTOPHER GUEST Every night; every night I can't go sleep, ... I watch it until I fall asleep. BYRON SANDERS We don't know, we won't know for several months, how much this will cost us, DAVID NICHOLS They know how dangerous the sea is. They know about the deaths of other immigrants, and despite that... LUIS CARRION He's a big guy, you know? ... I talked to him the last 18 holes, 'Come on, man, come on. Why you too... CARLOS FRANCO When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the r... PAT BENATAR This could mean there are people out there who know about the car and the homicide. And we're asking... BILL PROFFITT For him to come back this week and show this team how much we mean to him, man that just says what t... BEN UTECHT I grew up going to that (ATP) tournament every year, and now to bring my team there is awesome. I ca... JAY HARRIS I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was makin... BILL MURRAY This is a very good win for us. We come back home and had the crowd behind us and it helped. DENNIS HELMS Everything happens every night for this audience, and it's a very special occasion to come to th... ROGER REES I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a m... BRYAN ADAMS I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there... MARK CURRY I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" - MARGARET CHO They were concerned, but I don't know how concerned. They kept that to themselves. Nobody ever thoug... COLEN DUFFY How can a team be flat when you know what you have on the line? We know what this game means. We kno... MARK KOTSAY I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright da... TUPAC SHAKUR I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, theres a bright day... TUPAC SHAKUR I don't know how to explain it. If we could bottle up these efforts against the Devils and use them ... RICK DIPIETRO Everybody wants Hockey Night in Canada back. One way or another we will have hockey Saturday night. ... JASON MACDONALD My mom and cousins will watch it. I don't know if I want to talk it up too much. LIZ BOWDEN We're trying to bring more awareness to our sport to the rest of the auto racing community. These gu... BOB CUNEO If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to kno... JOE DIMAGGIO No matter how much we try to ignore the past,if we just don't deal with it and move on it will alway... GUNDO MULAUDZI I've already told (quarterbacks coach Mike ) Bobo I don't know how much sleep I'm going to get Frida... D.J. SHOCKLEY My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to p... J. J. WATT What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know ... LUC ROBITAILLE It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive. LAUREN DESTEFANO We have a lot of expectations. We have to take that right attitude into every game. I want us to be ... ALEX KUBE I don't know what it was this year but there was something about us and we bonded and came together.... CASEY MOORE This is my home, pure and simple. I know that doesn't mean much to some people who pick up and move ... DONALD BORDELON They should never trade a guy like that, because every night he puts it on the line. He's fun to wat... MIKE AYERS We've been talking about it and putting up little things every day of the week. That's helped us to ... JUSTIN PARNELL We've already talked about next year and how much we want to come back here. We lose a lot and we wi... CALEB SIMONS It doesn't matter how much I think I know about Florida, it still flips me on the head every tim... MATT PASSMORE What you gotta think about is what they're saying in their locker room. They need to jump on us. On ... SUE BIRD Friday night was the night most people thought they were supposed to have fun. Trouble was most peop... KINKY FRIEDMAN Having Matt come back for the Army game meant so much to the rest of us. To see how much Matt cares ... GREG SPRINK They have the pieces. The thing is to come together. Not one guy has to do it every night. They don'... DARRYL STRAWBERRY
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VLADIMIR NABOKOV You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poiso... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and... VLADIMIR NABOKOV And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece VLADIMIR NABOKOV Ink, a Drug. VLADIMIR NABOKOV I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything i... VLADIMIR NABOKOV It is late now, I am a bit tired; the sky is irritated by stars. And I love you, I love you, I love ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst. VLADIMIR NABOKOV I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the sa... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. VLADIMIR NABOKOV You know, what's so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. VLADIMIR NABOKOV I reviewed in thought the modern era of raps and apparitions, beginning with the knockings of 1848, ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in... VLADIMIR NABOKOV But even in such works where the author is ideally unobtrusive, he remains diffused through the book... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. VLADIMIR NABOKOV A wave would arrive, all out of breath, but, as it had nothing to report, it would disperse in apolo... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to s... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I can only explain my behaviour then by the mechanism of that dream vacuum wherein revolves a derang... VLADIMIR NABOKOV They were contemplating moving into another house or, more exactly, loudly saying to each other, so ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. VLADIMIR NABOKOV I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that liter... VLADIMIR NABOKOV It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting... VLADIMIR NABOKOV You couldn't get more original than Laura. Laura. Yes, she was an original, all right. One of a kind... VLADIMIR NABOKOV My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. VLADIMIR NABOKOV We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives... VLADIMIR NABOKOV This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘... VLADIMIR NABOKOV The color of one's creed, neckties, eyes, thoughts, manners, speech, is sure to meet somewhere in ti... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia... VLADIMIR NABOKOV She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had... VLADIMIR NABOKOV And I still have other smothered memories, now unfolding themselves into limbless monsters of pain. ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anythin... VLADIMIR NABOKOV I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always ... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés. VLADIMIR NABOKOV but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remain... VLADIMIR NABOKOV