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DANKA V.![]()
Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. But I'm m...
WILLIAM SAROYAN It was different for me because I was there by myself. I did feel that it was just me, not my team. ...
BARBIE VINEY![]()
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career...
BARBARA CORCORAN You don't see any houses any more. I saw only four rooftops that were covered by water; everything e...
ROSETTE LERIAS It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass o...
MICHAEL BADEN I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and Whi...
SHERMAN ALEXIE![]()
In the case of a person, ... you know, I was 10 once. I was 15 once. I was 20 once. I was 30 once. A...
DAVID JOHANSEN I was awakened by the doorbell at about 4:30 in the morning. It was the paper carrier and she wanted...
BARRY JACKSON![]()
My mother persuaded me not to pluck my eyebrows when I was a teenager - right now I'm so gratefu...
MARGHERITA MISSONI There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly gra...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the in...
HENRY GRUNWALD I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pie...
BIBLE![]()
I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA![]()
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm not surprised it was not approved, but I was shocked by the margin. It only lost by eight points...
TOM SCOTT![]()
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT![]()
One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that th...
JORGE LUIS BORGES![]()
I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I've...
JOHN MOTSON![]()
I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.
AMY WINEHOUSE The Coast Guard didn't tell them to run. But once the boat was stopped, once the crime was stopped, ...
STEVEN AMSTER He's working my butt off. I couldn't feel my arms I was so tired and it was so hard, but I'm smiling...
RONALD ALLEN My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
CELINE DION![]()
A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd.
JOHN MILTON![]()
Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
NOBU MATSUHISA Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?
PAULA MCLAIN So now I feel like I've actually graduated to the point where it's not because I'm a homegrown kid t...
SHAWN CHACON My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me a...
HATTIE MCDANIEL All that I was and the woman I was becoming was savagely thrown away by three men. Three men that br...
JANE DOE I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN I'm so emotional. And I'm also happy because now I'll be able to say to my grandchildren: 'I was the...
SYLVIA BOATENG![]()
I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was ...
SUZANNE COLLINS In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a dou...
JACK GOULD I woke up this morning and smelled smoke in the house. By that time, somebody was beating at my door...
JEFF BRADSHAW![]()
The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but eve...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I would say, 'No'. The cash position has improved quite dramatically to what it was and it has been ...
IAN COLLINS I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.
GYPSY ROSE LEE![]()
All right,” Roland said. “Rudeness is forgivable, Blaine; so I was taught in my youth, and the c...
STEPHEN KING![]()
Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY![]()
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was on...
EPICURUS I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY![]()
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS My heart was broken because she was leaving early. But not because of the golf, but because of the e...
CAMMY LANDRY I was once nestled in a cocoon but baby now i feel free as a butterfly
KRISTINA ARPAJIAN![]()
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I...
GABRIELA SABATINI![]()
He will be missed not only by those who knew him and not only by the nation that he served so proudl...
MARGARET THATCHER![]()
Jon Glass had vaulted over the fence and was now approaching a horse chosen by some sort of weird ho...
SARAH REES BRENNAN I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I must have walked by faith and not by sight because the journey was so dark, I couldn't see where t...
DEBRA ROBERTS But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER![]()
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutio...
CATHY GUISEWITE I was lucky because my greenhouse was shielded by my house.
BERYL DAVIS I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional o...
PIERRE SALINGER![]()
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI Our guys had to walk up 19 floors. Pieces (of glass) were sailing like a kite to the ground. I was s...
PHIL SAUNDERS![]()
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef...
ROBERTO BENIGNI![]()
Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have f...
JOSEPH MONNINGER I really feel like the dark side of the '60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and ...
DON SILVER I would draw floor plans because I wanted to be like him. I even designed a pair of sneakers for mys...
KYLE CARNI![]()
I guess I was actually sort of grateful that someone else was taking over my life. I mean, I'm obvio...
JESSE ANDREWS I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it w...
JENNY LAWSON When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars...
SARAH PARCAK![]()
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies whe...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE![]()
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now ...
JULIA SAWALHA How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made an...
ELLA FRANK I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa...
TAYLOUR PAIGE That promise, I can say, was broken by the government.
DOUG CAMPBELL![]()
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some rea...
MICHAEL H. HART![]()
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Beca...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE![]()
Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I wa...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH I wonder what that must feel like, to have written a true classic that's been covered by so many peo...
LEE ANN WOMACK Taboo was by far the most fulfilling experience of my career. Many lessons were learned, and so it g...
ROSIE O'DONNELL![]()
I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but a...
JEAN NIDETCH![]()
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ...
ALICE MUNRO The only thing I remember is a truck carrying lumber, because I was lying in between the seats and m...
JOSE CANO You walk by and glass is shattered everywhere. Their homes are just broken.
JOHN NIXON He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
BIBLE T.O. was the first read, but he was covered, so I looked to Greg Lewis and he was covered. I stepped...
DONOVAN MCNABB![]()
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I...
NEIL GAIMAN I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.
BUDDY LESTER I've cleared 5-6 once before, but it was at an indoor meet and conditions were perfect, so I would s...
ASHTON BISHOP I knew I wasn't exactly 100 percent, but all I could do was keep trying and working because the only...
WES BROWN When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock ...
DAVID BROCK I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER Cooper's tremendous love and energy and unchained freedom had captured life itself. Now, as the last...
PETER JENKINS I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
ALAN PARKER I was told many times not to burn bridges. It made me feel like once I burned a bridge, that was it....
LETICIA RAE Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT We feel we are covered by those elections and so does the Pennsylvania Department of State.
GARY HUTCHISON![]()
I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating car...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE i used to think
i was broken
because
i never once
spent my
dayd...
AMANDA LOVELACE My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my m...
RAM CHARAN He was a personal friend. He was a great educator. He will be missed not only by the community but a...
FRANK VOSTATEK I was on the edge, I was confused and disoriented. As I was about to fall, I was saved, by that bond...
SS038NICK![]()
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I...
MARY BERRY I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
JANIS IAN
wasn’t feeling humiliated...
DANKA V.
Three times in my life I have been captured: by the orphanage, by school, and by the Army. But I'm m... WILLIAM SAROYAN It was different for me because I was there by myself. I did feel that it was just me, not my team. ...
BARBIE VINEY
Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career... BARBARA CORCORAN You don't see any houses any more. I saw only four rooftops that were covered by water; everything e...
ROSETTE LERIAS It's a deep, irregular cut and it was cut by some sharp, jagged object ... a jagged piece of glass o...
MICHAEL BADEN I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and Whi...
SHERMAN ALEXIE
In the case of a person, ... you know, I was 10 once. I was 15 once. I was 20 once. I was 30 once. A... DAVID JOHANSEN I was awakened by the doorbell at about 4:30 in the morning. It was the paper carrier and she wanted...
BARRY JACKSON
My mother persuaded me not to pluck my eyebrows when I was a teenager - right now I'm so gratefu... MARGHERITA MISSONI There was a queen that was overthrown here. So I was affected by all of that and felt profoundly gra...
NEIL ABERCROMBIE A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the in...
HENRY GRUNWALD I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pie...
BIBLE
I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, b... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'm not surprised it was not approved, but I was shocked by the margin. It only lost by eight points...
TOM SCOTT
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? TERRY PRATCHETT
One day or one night—between my days and nights, what difference can there be?—I dreamed that th... JORGE LUIS BORGES
I did a bit of boxing when younger. Once I was joined by Muhammad Ali as my co-commentator. I've... JOHN MOTSON
I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home. AMY WINEHOUSE The Coast Guard didn't tell them to run. But once the boat was stopped, once the crime was stopped, ...
STEVEN AMSTER He's working my butt off. I couldn't feel my arms I was so tired and it was so hard, but I'm smiling...
RONALD ALLEN My child was not only carried by me, but by the universe.
CELINE DION
A grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharg'd. JOHN MILTON
Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now. NOBU MATSUHISA Was my happiness so completely tied to him now that I could only feel like myself when he was near?
PAULA MCLAIN So now I feel like I've actually graduated to the point where it's not because I'm a homegrown kid t...
SHAWN CHACON My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me a...
HATTIE MCDANIEL All that I was and the woman I was becoming was savagely thrown away by three men. Three men that br...
JANE DOE I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.
WILLIAM WELLS BROWN I'm so emotional. And I'm also happy because now I'll be able to say to my grandchildren: 'I was the...
SYLVIA BOATENG
I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was ... SUZANNE COLLINS In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a dou...
JACK GOULD I woke up this morning and smelled smoke in the house. By that time, somebody was beating at my door...
JEFF BRADSHAW
The best night of my life was watching the Japanese Noh theater. I've only seen it once, but eve... VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I would say, 'No'. The cash position has improved quite dramatically to what it was and it has been ...
IAN COLLINS I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.
GYPSY ROSE LEE
All right,” Roland said. “Rudeness is forgivable, Blaine; so I was taught in my youth, and the c... STEPHEN KING
Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given... MIRIAM MARGOLYES I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ...
SEX AND THE CITY
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was on... EPICURUS I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of c...
ANNE DUDLEY
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens th... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS My heart was broken because she was leaving early. But not because of the golf, but because of the e...
CAMMY LANDRY I was once nestled in a cocoon but baby now i feel free as a butterfly
KRISTINA ARPAJIAN
There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I... GABRIELA SABATINI
He will be missed not only by those who knew him and not only by the nation that he served so proudl... MARGARET THATCHER
Jon Glass had vaulted over the fence and was now approaching a horse chosen by some sort of weird ho... SARAH REES BRENNAN I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON I must have walked by faith and not by sight because the journey was so dark, I couldn't see where t...
DEBRA ROBERTS But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutio... CATHY GUISEWITE I was lucky because my greenhouse was shielded by my house.
BERYL DAVIS I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional o...
PIERRE SALINGER
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI Our guys had to walk up 19 floors. Pieces (of glass) were sailing like a kite to the ground. I was s...
PHIL SAUNDERS
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI
Bears are extremely human, even down to their footprints. But I am also a fly fisherman, so I have f... JOSEPH MONNINGER I really feel like the dark side of the '60s began in that period, ... I wanted to explore that and ...
DON SILVER I would draw floor plans because I wanted to be like him. I even designed a pair of sneakers for mys...
KYLE CARNI
I guess I was actually sort of grateful that someone else was taking over my life. I mean, I'm obvio... JESSE ANDREWS I was having problems with depression and anxiety disorder, and it felt like not blogging about it w...
JENNY LAWSON When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars...
SARAH PARCAK
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies whe... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I am always baffled by age, but to be honest with you, I feel like I am about 34. I feel better now ... JULIA SAWALHA How could I have ever thought she was what was wrong in my life? She was the only thing that made an...
ELLA FRANK I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that sa...
TAYLOUR PAIGE That promise, I can say, was broken by the government.
DOUG CAMPBELL
My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some rea... MICHAEL H. HART
If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Beca... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I wa... TAMMY DUCKWORTH I wonder what that must feel like, to have written a true classic that's been covered by so many peo...
LEE ANN WOMACK Taboo was by far the most fulfilling experience of my career. Many lessons were learned, and so it g...
ROSIE O'DONNELL
I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but a... JEAN NIDETCH
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and ... ALICE MUNRO The only thing I remember is a truck carrying lumber, because I was lying in between the seats and m...
JOSE CANO You walk by and glass is shattered everywhere. Their homes are just broken.
JOHN NIXON He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
BIBLE T.O. was the first read, but he was covered, so I looked to Greg Lewis and he was covered. I stepped...
DONOVAN MCNABB
I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I... NEIL GAIMAN I fell off a chair onto a broken water glass when I was 3 years old.
BUDDY LESTER I've cleared 5-6 once before, but it was at an indoor meet and conditions were perfect, so I would s...
ASHTON BISHOP I knew I wasn't exactly 100 percent, but all I could do was keep trying and working because the only...
WES BROWN When I founded Media Matters, there was another model, which would have been to call this the Brock ...
DAVID BROCK I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER Cooper's tremendous love and energy and unchained freedom had captured life itself. Now, as the last...
PETER JENKINS I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
ALAN PARKER I was told many times not to burn bridges. It made me feel like once I burned a bridge, that was it....
LETICIA RAE Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil pi...
WINSLOW HOMER By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT We feel we are covered by those elections and so does the Pennsylvania Department of State.
GARY HUTCHISON
I was an only child and was obviously really bored, so I would entertain my parents by imitating car... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE i used to think
i was broken
because
i never once
spent my
dayd...
AMANDA LOVELACE My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my m...
RAM CHARAN He was a personal friend. He was a great educator. He will be missed not only by the community but a...
FRANK VOSTATEK I was on the edge, I was confused and disoriented. As I was about to fall, I was saved, by that bond...
SS038NICK
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I... MARY BERRY I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
JANIS IAN
The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. 
All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white. 
Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England. 
It's in my blood to be around people while I was training. 
I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As... 
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten... 
While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters. 
Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through... 
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They... 