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It sounds corny, but it was like Woodstock up there. People were everywhere.


Francis Slay

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MARK O'MEARA I hoped to see a lot of people, but I had no idea it was going to look like this. As far as I could ...
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DEYTH BANGER When I got up, there were people everywhere - they were bleeding and screaming.
ANIL GUPTA It was like a swamp. It [grass] was pulled up everywhere. It was like stepping in potholes.
SAM SMITH I was just very happy with my collection, so I didn't care if I won or lost. It sounds corny, but I ...
CHLOE DAO He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself for an...
WYNONNA JUDD There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if ...
MARKUS ZUSAK Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
OWEN WILSON He was an intensely interesting and fascinating man to me, ... I fell in love with him at first sigh...
CHARLES BLACK It sounds corny, but I've promised my inner child that never again will I ever abandon myself fo...
WYNONNA JUDD A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds...
RACHEL ROY ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac...
DEYTH BANGER There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
PAT OLIPHANT It was quiet; people were crying everywhere. A lot of people just stayed to themselves.
AMANDA WALDENMAIER It was a mess. There was water everywhere. But he was so happy. It took him all day to wash three pl...
JANIE BESS I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw...
J.D. SALINGER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER It seemed like they were bringing it from everywhere,
DEANGELO WILLIAMS That sounds like an impossibly low amount, but it was enough.
BUD SHARK It seemed like overnight it was just everywhere. They told me there was nothing they could do.
JUDY BAILEY We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great ...
CHRIS MESSINA I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan...
JOHN TESH It was like I was throwing watermelons up there, and they were Gallagher .
BRANDON CLAUSSEN If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay...
JOHN GREEN It sounds like your contact with her was not as close as when she was growing up.
HOWARD CURTIS It was the most physical game I've played in since the sectional championship against Linden (last y...
ROB JOHNSON There's a similar story with St. Francis and the wolf. The wolf was terrorizing a village, eating ki...
BETTY STREETT The court was OK, I guess. There were a lot of people. Everywhere I play I find some fans and it is ...
FERNANDO GONZALEZ Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.
STEPHEN KING Describing Woodstock as the 'big bang,' I think that's a great way to describe it, becau...
DAVID CROSBY It just sounds like it was amateur hour.
RICH GALEN How the hell should I know? Most of the people my age are dead. You could look it up.
CASEY STENGEL I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performi...
RAVI SHANKAR My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
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LEAH STOKES It was nasty. There was tissue everywhere.
GEORGETTE NEAL It sounds so negative of me to say, but I don't feel like there were many coming-of-age films wh...
BEL POWLEY There were cracks everywhere, ... Some could be brushed away as cosmetic, but there were also cracks...
TARIQ KHAN It sounds like a lot but at the end of the day, the commissary would be empty. Depleted. They came r...
BART TUCKER When people tell you they saw your last picture - well, the way they say it sounds like they hope it...
BRODERICK CRAWFORD It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind ...
EARL SWEATSHIRT People panicked and started running away. There was smoke everywhere. You could see it from any hote...
MOHAMMED ABBAS It was Woodstock meets Augusta out there, unbelievable. For how many people there are and how close ...
KIRK TRIPLETT Our blocking tonight was awesome. We were everywhere it seemed.
ANNA LAU The last scene? I've got to tell you, everyone was bawling. People were just crying. It was like a g...
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ELIJAH WALD It sounds trite, but I like telling stories.
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DUSTIN BRUNS I couldn't believe it. There was blood everywhere.
BUCK BUCHANAN It was kind of funny, buttons were flying everywhere. We all laughed and gave him a Gatorade bath in...
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SOTERO M LOPEZ II If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
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PAULO COELHO It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
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RYAN TRITCH If people aren't on board with your dreams, there is still that one man canoe. Sail on and slay on w...
JANNA CACHOLA This sounds like a small percentage, but you're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that w...
BOB HARTWIG It's gonna sound like them if it is them. It sounds like them now, that's what I think. It doesn't, ...
GEORGE HARRISON It sounds like something dying. It sounds like a sick European police siren.
JEFF BURNETT Everybody is talking it up ... it sounds like we're going to have a good turnout.
CLIFF HOLDREAD Stop complaining and start doing
KEVIN ABDULRAHMAN If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.
DEYTH BANGER The song sounds like it was recorded inside 'Animal House.'
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CAMILO VILLEGAS It was 26 degrees at 1 o'clock. There was ice everywhere.
ANN HOLT Everywhere, there was Ukrainian Gypsy and folk music. That's just how it is there; you cannot escape...
EUGENE HUTZ The same ocean of love became the ocean of sorrow in which I drowned... -Anshika
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ANSHIKA JAIN She broke her own heart by holding him into it.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN She craved for the moon, not knowing there were other stars in the sky too... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You know your value, Only when someone else crumbles it... -Anshika
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GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY His name was engraved deep in the core of her heart.. - Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN I will lock my feelings up and throw the key in the ocean till someone comes, ready to hunt the dept...
ANSHIKA JAIN It's funny.. I still love the person who made me lose my ability to love... -Anshika.
ANSHIKA JAIN Its like I'm a broken mirror.. Don't try to pick my shattered pieces or you will hurt yourself .... ...
ANSHIKA JAIN The story was so broken that no one could ever find the missing pieces.... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN Their story was just a chapter to him... -Anshika
ANSHIKA JAIN You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.
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FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON