It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
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BETTY SISK I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.
HERBIE HANCOCK I got a hand on it, but I didn't get enough of it. It was just one of those bang-bang plays, and he ...
MARCUS TRUFANT I was just woke up with a gunshot, and then I heard a yelp.
LARRY CROWELL The gun went off accidentally, I didn't even know it went off. Even when I heard the bang, I didn't ...
DANILO GUERARA SANDOVAL Then I heard this young veteran on TV speaking about the war. It was John Kerry. He put everything I...
MAX CLELAND First they said New Jersey, and then I heard later on it was Florida. I heard it was Las Vegas. I he...
IRMA GOMEZ I believe in the Big Bang theory. God spoke and BANG! It was.
UNKNOWN I was just running as hard as I could, wanting to make them make a play, and the next thing you know...
DAVE ROBERTS I was busting my tail down the line because I knew it was going to be a bang-bang play at first,
DAVE ROBERTS I knew I was going home the whole way, [I] just couldn't get it out of my glove quick enough. I prob...
CONOR JACKSON I heard a loud crash, and then all hell broke loose. I went straight down, then I was just trying to...
JOSEPH CAPACI This is my very first musical. I heard about it and it sounded fun so my friend John and I auditione...
BRYAN JONES It got kinda quiet then I just heard her scream real loud. I just knew something was wrong by the wa...
JESSY LARSON They say it all started out with a big bang. But, what I wonder is, was it a big bang or did it just...
KARL PILKINGTON There was a big stone in the road and bang... I hit it,
SEBASTIEN LOEB They shined their lights a couple of times and beeped their sirens and that was it.
JEFF BIRD I just heard it was a tough place to play. I heard it gets loud in there and that the fans heckle a ...
ERIC LANE They started arguing and then bang.
BILL ROBERTSON I was singing totally jazz then, but when I heard the Beatles and heard the gospel influence and eve...
BILLY PAUL I went out pretty fast. Then I heard on the last lap I was close to the record, so I just went after...
LAUREN BONDS I rushed it a little bit. I couldn't get a good grip on it. It was a bang-bang play, a 50-50 shot. W...
CONOR JACKSON I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a...
JACOB DEGROM I didn't look at the clock until after they scored. I saw there was 1:04 on the clock and all I coul...
JASON BACASHIHUA There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who ha...
JACK VANCE It kind of came really fast. It was just passing, bang. I tried to get myself in there and I had a p...
HANNU TOIVONEN I'd heard about a shipwreck that was never found - John Paul Jones' Bonhomme Richard. So I t...
CLIVE CUSSLER When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when...
DEBORAH COX Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not: / For He...
BIBLE I heard a few people gasp. Then, Tom had this funny conversation with the beer like it was a breakup...
MARTY JONES He heard the loud boat, heard a loud noise and then the boat was quiet,
CASSIDY I last heard of the hearing last year when I was told that it was postponed indefinitely. Since then...
LUVUYO MATSHA We seem to do that, we're a rhythm team; a team of runs. In the beginning of the second quarter we d...
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REX HARRISON If by that you mean that I dislike celebrity magazines, prefer food to anorexia, refuse to watch TV ...
JOHN GREEN I heard horror stories about this place but I really didn't know where it was or how to get there. I...
COURTNEY EMKEN All I heard was a crackling noise and then I saw the scaffolding fall off the building.
JAMES WHITE You're beautiful and sad," I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You'...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Your voice has haunted every inch of my soul since the last time I heard it…my world had been so d...
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI Since we do use sirens for more things than just weather.
BARY LUSBY Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY It was so bang-bang, I had no idea what happened or what caused the ball to be loose, ... All I knew...
DAVE ROBERTS I heard it was a hostile environment and I heard in the CIAA every place we play is going to be toug...
JAMAL DURHAM There was some big guys in there. Getting in the trenches trying to bang with them was tough. I knew...
ALFONSO SMITH I'm fine with it. I'm just happy we finished out with a bang.
BRANDON ROY It had hailed and it was just green, it was just absolutely green out there. I could hear the stuff ...
EDNA BEECHRAFT I thought this was a great way to end the season with a bang. This music just makes you feel good al...
ERIC GREENE I heard crackling that sounded just like the saplings breaking in the ice storm we had last year. Th...
JEFF FREEMAN I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH John and I spoke about it a few times. In fact, we spoke about it in the conference room in Trump To...
ALAN MARCUS I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.
MEG RYAN You have mixed feelings when you hear a hurricane is coming because they keep telling you to leave a...
IAN WILLIAMSON I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.
NOEL GALLAGHER I thought a plane had crashed into the place. It was a real loud bang, like an explosion.
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BOB DOYLE They sounded the sirens, but it was pretty much too late. I looked outside and saw the funnel cloud ...
GLENN PALMER Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage versio...
JERRY HALL We knew it was just a drill. Still, when I heard the siren, my heart was pounding so hard.
CANDRA YOHANES I just heard a commotion and came outside to see what was going on.
KEVIN CAMPOS It was a bang-bang. We had bodies in front -- it's like the puck had eyes. ... It's a tough break, b...
CAM WARD Sirens and everything. Usually the drive takes half an hour at least. With the escort it was about 1...
LAMAR BUTLER It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happene...
JONAH LOMU Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I firs...
AUSTIN CARLILE I just realized it was $3. I'd heard that, but I wasn't sure it would happen. It was quite a shock. ...
PHILLIP BROOKS The plane had already taken off but suddenly it started shaking and banked steeply to the left and t...
ROHADI SITEPU It was great. I got a nice pass from John Doran, and it was open for me. And I took it.
BILL MORRISON The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it ...
HAROLD RAMIS I heard George Crumb?s ?Black Angels? and I knew that I had just heard the music that I was born to ...
DAVID HARRINGTON I heard something that sounded like a pop, and then I heard a couple seconds later, another pop, pop...
CHARLES KRONICK [The audience reacted in stages, like a rocket.] There was stunned silence, laughter, then unbelieva...
TOM CREAN They were on the air, and they had been struck by the tornado and the storms before we were, and the...
ERNIE SLOTTAG It was such a great moment. I remember John was in shock.
THERESE BOYLE NIEGO That's just John. And Sean was the catalyst both days.
LARRY KRUSE just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.
BRIAN GRAY Of course, we heard horrible rumors then we heard good rumors, ... From all the official word it was...
SCOTT CAMPBELL As he pushed her by the shoulder toward the gate, the rising howl commenced. Nightmares had beome a ...
IAN MCEWAN They didn't have their sirens on or anything, but they were still chasing.
JOHN WILLIAMS I looked through the glass from my adjacent studio and John [Peel] was just weeping. Silently.
NICKY CAMPBELL I had such a good time working with John Woo and John Travolta, and it was so professional. I want t...
CHRISTIAN SLATER They went bang, bang, bang in the third quarter and they were away.
ADAM SANDERS Dabbling is fine but when I was bang on it, that wasn't a nice time ... I still drink but I don't do...
KATE MOSS I was pretty surprised about it when I first heard it. When I heard he was doing it for his family, ...
AUSTIN KELLY I heard something and I thought it was a natural gas explosion.
BILL PEDERSON We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; ...
HARRIET TUBMAN On shooting American Outlaws: I kept saying 'Bang bang' and they kept having to cut.
COLIN FARRELL There was still a long way to cut on the tree, so I didn't expect it to snap. Then I heard my friend...
DEAN SCHMUNK But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then...
ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. I was devastated when I heard the news. I just didn't want to believe it. We know he's in a better p...
MIKE RUCKER I was just trying to get some interpretation. I'm just a coach. I just want to know what call was ma...
JON GRUDEN They just wanted to be heard. It was very peaceful.
LORI HALEY 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love...
GEORGE BENSON We hear sirens all the time out here, so you just expect there's been an accident.
LINDA PALERMO I probably would have got him out with a good throw on a bang-bang play, but I couldn't get a good g...
CONOR JACKSON We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla...
RACHEL TUCKER As soon as I stopped for the traffic and took off, I heard two shots. They hit the first two windows...
RICHARD SMITH If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the su...
KRIST NOVOSELIC We'd just finished dinner and heard two loud explosions, ... Didn't really want to think it was a bo...
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those wh...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the probl...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the gr...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ab...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY