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We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.


Raymond Carver

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E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART We were a whole lot better. We stepped up our game. We knew what we had to do.
ANDRE HATCHETT We knew it would be a tough one. Our series was tied up at one with us winning just a few days ago. ...
BRIAN HOLT We were fired up. We were ready for this game. Our coach has pushed us hard in practice to get ready...
ABBY FENNESSEY When we are in a foreign country we live with a fervor rooting from knowing that our days there are ...
FORREST CURRAN We weren't completely focused and after our swims yesterday, we knew we had to pick it up today. We ...
LAURA STARK She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART When they came into our place [Penndel Lanes], we knew we had to win three. And, our boys were up to...
AL MOSS We knew we were the underdogs. But we were ready. We had it on our minds that we wouldn't let it sli...
BRITTNEY WILLIAMS I knew I needed to step up. We didn't come out as strong as we have been, and I didn't think we were...
ERICA FARINA We were ready to play tonight. Our crowd was into it. We were waiting for Ralston's fans, but they n...
ANDREW HOOPER We came up from architectural school and within four or five days we were building. We were doing ou...
JIM SANFORD Our defense did a good job. We knew they had some speed up top, but we were able to control them.
JEFF ROGERS Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER And we were prepared for our meetings. We had all done our homework and knew the issues.
ANNE MILLING We were playing good defense and we were running our offense okay but we had to pick it up. We kept ...
CATHERINE BOVE We knew we were going to be a lot better than we were before. Those (wins) just brought our confiden...
CHAZ ROOTS We fouled guys we thought were going to miss and they clutched up and hit them.
DAVE JAMISON Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART I'm real happy. We knew what we were up against coming in here and I knew we had to play the perfect...
LARRY CHRONISTER We didn't have restraints. We were able to open up our lives, bring what was relevant in our lives t...
DAVID BOREANAZ We knew that (working in New Orleans) was going to be rough and we were all ready to buck up and do ...
CHRIS YORK They were more ready than we were. It was a coaching mistake, not getting our kids ready. It won't h...
DON EGGENBURG I remember the moment in which we were taken hostage in Libya, and we were asked to lie face down on...
LYNSEY ADDARIO We weren't going to Denver for a holiday - we were there to shake things up and go for it.
CHRIS WOODS (The Badgers) were throwing up a lot of contested shots, and we were getting rebounds and pushing it...
HASSAN ADAMS We knew they were on a roll and this is like their Cinderella season. We knew they?d be up for the g...
KERRY LOUGHRAN Preparing in the last three days, we knew that we had to play our style and have them adapt to us, a...
JOEL PARDALIS The guys knew what we were up against and knew we had to get bonus points.
JEFF WEATHERMAN When they started scoring, we knew they were coming for us. They kept scoring, and it seemed like we...
HALEY MCINTYRE When I first found out, I was a little upset. But we knew it was business and we knew we had to get ...
DEREK PUERTA We were looking for a [new] space because our audience numbers were growing and we were outgrowing o...
ELISABETH ANDRE We never gave up. That's just not our character. We knew we still had it, but we knew we had to pick...
KRISTIN RILEY We knew coming in that UGF was going to make our guards beat them, and we were ready.
BRIAN ORR We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD No, but I hoped for a win. We were working on being mentally ready to play, to stay focused and to p...
JACKIE SANCHEZ We've had about nine days off and we have a virus going around on the team, so some of our starters ...
JEFF NEWHALL What fun we had, how beautiful we were.
E. LOCKHART Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come. But that night...
THE WONDER YEARS We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD We knew we had to play extremely well to win. We're excited about our performance. We knew we were p...
JEFF LANGREHR This could be our last game (before districts). We were really nervous. We had to step up. The littl...
RYAN MOONEY We knew they were going to be up for not getting beaten 4-1 again, but we were by far the better sid...
DEREK JOHNSTON We knew our backs were against the wall. Nobody wanted to end up in the NIT.
TERRENCE ROBERTS We knew they were not going to quit. We're all playing for our lives at this point, so we knew they ...
MIKE ADRAS We were intimidated when we came up here. We had a little fear in our hearts and you can't do that.
SAM SIDES The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN He didn't think he was good enough, and he was ready to give up on himself. The supporting cast arou...
BOB HURLEY It's kind of cool. Our whole lives growing up, we were so competitive. Even when playing cards.
CASSIE HAHL We need a shift in our message and in our pulpit
SUNDAY ADELAJA We had our chance. We were up by two games with three to play ? that's all you can ask for.
KEN ANDERSON Our practices were very focused this week. We were just ready for them.
DANIEL YANES I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ...
LINDSAY THOMPSON We were without one of our key players and we had to step it up. Somebody had to step it up and what...
MARKEL HUMPHREY The defense stepping up like it did was everything. They are a tough team to shut down. We knew we h...
BRYAN WELLS When the cinematograph first made its appearance, we were told that the days of the ordinary theatre...
IVOR NOVELLO We were much more aggressive in the fourth quarter and that made the difference. Their zone made us ...
BRYAN WEAVER We knew what we were going up against.
DAVID LIGHTY We were in a little bit of a tight spot late. Austin had fouled out, Sam had four fouls and with 1:5...
JOEL DUNN We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
OLIVER HUDSON Defensively we were strong again along with our rebounding. We knew they would put up some shots and...
PAUL ALEPRA We needed a little time to warm up, ... After the first game, we warmed up. We were a lot more inten...
ERICA GARCIA We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making th...
BREANA ALLISON We had our goal as going to state. But we were frustrated and we had a lot of pressure. We were much...
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MIKAELA REHAK Wow, I didn't know we were up that much. I knew we were up a lot. It's frustrating to lose this game...
MICHAEL REDD Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I wa...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Defensively, we stepped up our intensity. We were bringing up the pressure on our traps in our full-...
COLIN CUSHMAN We had a lot of long rallies. They were digging up a lot of our balls.
KRISTY DWYER At halftime we were up by 14, and we talked about trying to get up by 24 or 25, or it was going to b...
JEFF NEWHALL In the first half we were getting frustrated with each other, we weren't really working as a team. W...
KATHERINE MACMURRAY We were coming off Christmas break and I knew we'd be rusty. Our defense could have been better. Tha...
CHARLOTTE JONES We picked up our aggressiveness and started taking it to the hole. We knew they were calling the fou...
IVAN CHAMBERS My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stage...
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For being still. Coupled with this
a desir...
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ANDREW FRANK We were getting a little worried. But we were confident we had it. All season our defense has been c...
BRIAN WAGNER We just didn't come ready to play; I could see it when we were warming up. We were there physically ...
GARY APODACA The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And, yes, there are certainly time...
ELIZABETH EDWARDS We were all over the place. We were in passing lanes, we were deflecting passes, getting our hands o...
RAFER ALSTON We weren't sure how well we were going to do. We just knew we had to do our best and hope the judges...
BRYAN JONES Our mothers knew we were OK when we were at the Y.
DOT HANDY We knew we had to come out strong against them. We couldn't play scared. We were completely focused ...
LAURA FALKENBERG We had heavy legs today, our shooters were off and all of our shots were short. We cleaned it up in ...
JEFF BORJA If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very diffe...
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ANDY ROGERS La tragedia no es glamurosa
E. LOCKHART Mi mente funciona de maneras misteriosas
E. LOCKHART Nuestro beso convierte el mundo en polvo
E. LOCKHART suffer. you could say it means endure, but thats not exactly right
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RAYMOND CHANDLER God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible ...
RAYMOND HOLLIWELL The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can m...
RAYMOND CHANDLER A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
RAYMOND CHANDLER She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
RAYMOND CHANDLER In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entries on reports. Nobod...
RAYMOND CHANDLER So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delive...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the highe...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.
RAYMOND CHANDLER The most prepared are the most dedicated.
RAYMOND BERRY The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been an...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artis...
RAYMOND CHANDLER That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He...
RAYMOND CHANDLER They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have devel...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangli...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.....
RAYMOND CHANDLER There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are peop...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. Th...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endle...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called signi...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese a...
RAYMOND CHANDLER He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
RAYMOND CHANDLER Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After t...
RAYMOND CHANDLER It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent a...
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