“ I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. ”
- Jacqueline Cochran- Copy
- 427
“ There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
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“ I've always said I can't tell sometimes that people even have an album out until I see them nominated for a Grammy. I think country gets dumped on across the board by the Grammys. ”
- Toby Keith- Copy
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“ Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column-pigeons dump on you because you're there. ”
- Peter Hall- Copy
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“ Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump. ”
- Pat Colander- Copy
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“ Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday. ”
- Russell Baker- Copy
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“ Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
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“ When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Revelation is everything, not for its own sake, because most self-revelation is just garbage - oop! - yes, but we have to purge the garbage, toss it out, throw it into a bunker and burn it, because it is fuel. And what do we do with fossil fuel? Why, we dump it into a bunker and burn it, of course… ”
- Dave Eggers- Copy
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“ While it is important to have principles, you have far less control of what happens. These principles and positions only get you so far, because what actually happens is that you don't carefully chart your way through life. You are picked up by a wind every now and again and dumped down somewhere else. ”
- Kazuo Ishiguro- Copy
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“ I was never a teenager. I became a teenager in Christ the King and I never grew out of it. More seriously… as I'm always serious as you know, there weren't teenagers in the late 1930s and early 1940s. There were adolescents. But by the time I was ordained and was dumped into Beverly, there were teenagers. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
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“ FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When a load of bricks, dumped on a corner lot, can arrange themselves into a house; when a handful of springs and screws and wheels, emptied on a desk, can gather themselves into a watch, then and not until then will it seem sensible, to some of us at least, to believe that all these thousands or millions of worlds could have been created, balanced and set to revolving in their separate orbits — all without any directing intelligence at all. ”
- Bruce Barton- Copy
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