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Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high.


Mark Helprin

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KELLY JONES And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD There were some games where he just carried us. He did all the dirty work.
CARLOS CUETO There are some who died because they were fasting, and they were crammed in tight,
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA Some people are here on earth because they were sent to hell
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He gave me all I could handle. There were some tense moments, but I made it through and jumped on of...
BRONC PLATT It was pitch black. The children were sick and wetting their pants. Some elderly people were faintin...
IAN STEWART There were some good things about playing the week before the Masters - and there were some drawback...
DAVE KAPLAN The students actually had the opportunity to play a variety of rhythm instruments together. There we...
JAN WILSON They were educated women...In my group, there were some prominent business women, a couple of them w...
LINDA GENTILE I was optimistic, because I saw how he touched them, how they were inspired by him and his success. ...
PETE MCDANIEL When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in...
MARTIN O'MALLEY Obviously, there were some discipline problems tonight. You can't take penalties against a power pla...
FREDDY MEYER She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART There were some issues and a lack of police presence,
ROSEANNE We got some high percentage shots down the stretch. We were able to drive some, and we broke some th...
HOUSTON FANCHER Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
BARNEY ROSS They were in bags inside the drums. Some of them were hockey bags, some of them were not concealed a...
MIKE MILNE I was there and all the walls were black and the phones were sitting there and not ringing and I was...
ALEX AGUILA According to the victim it happened on-campus and off campus and there was some e-mails that were ex...
DAVID MOLINA I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria ...
NICOLAS CAGE There were cracks everywhere, ... Some could be brushed away as cosmetic, but there were also cracks...
TARIQ KHAN I think there was a pretty good recognition that the consensus number was too high and that some of ...
JOE MOORE The pressure was a little bit different (from Salt Lake City) because I was defending some medals an...
APOLO ANTON OHNO I wish there were more available. In today's economy we need all kinds of help, especially for peopl...
DON COLE Life is not black and white; there is some gray nuance to it.
PILOU ASBAEK There were stories going around that we were bringing 3,000 people. People were making up all kinds ...
DENNIS MILLS Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about o...
ANN PATCHETT There were some very hard moments when the threats were intense, because the real risk is your own p...
DANIEL CORONELL The owner recaptured some, and neighbors shot some. We believe all pigs were recovered.
GREG KESSLER Then, when some of these other high-quality teams saw that Real and Manchester United were coming, t...
GORDON JAGO There were some that were really cool. Some of them came in with actual drawings, which was great be...
GINA CAHILL There were some ups and downs today for this team.
GREG PROSPERO Almost all the chimneys were down. There was substantial damage to masonry buildings, some collapses...
JACK BOATWRIGHT Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering th...
PAUL BERG There were some mixed feelings about it initially because of the sensitivity of the topic.
ERIC NELSON There are some question marks in the industry that weren't there in the past. And we are in a hell o...
CHAD MCDONALD Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees tha...
NEIL GAIMAN We were pretty pleased for the most part. We were trying some different formations. Some worked and ...
DON IDERAN There were some tense moments out there. They were a feisty opponent.
BILL FEHRENBACH We were just right there in some of it. We were awful close.
LIBBY OUELLETTE There were clearly some statements and assertions that were made that were wrong. It's important to ...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN We had some guys who showed up and made plays. There were some individuals who made some progress.
BUDDY GREEN I always thought there were some people who were just destined to be disengaged in their jobs becaus...
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SAMUEL JOHNSON I think there were some people who made their donations and were not even aware of the change in the...
BOB SCHARIN There were a lot of great races and some pretty good competition for us in some events. I felt it wa...
CRAIG HOFFMAN Some of the drills were kind of crazy. They were new to me, but when I got used to them they were al...
BRADLEY STARKS There were some sleepless nights there.
HOUSTON NUTT I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were s...
JANET EVANOVICH I'm sure a lot of the young guys were thinking we were going to go out there and do some conditionin...
BILLY VOLEK We're just a group of girls, and some were recruited and some were overlooked. But we all came in to...
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ROBERT ROWE Some of the pit bulls are mean, but it's not because they're pit bulls, it's because, in my opinion,...
DOUG MCCROSKEY If anything, it woke us up. There were just some miscommunications and some bad things happened.
BEN EVANS There were some concerns out in the public. I wouldn't call it an outcry, but there were some concer...
JOHN ASHER They gave out cash prizes to the pro swimmers. There were Olympic athletes and college ones. They we...
ELYCE KASTIGAR In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and of course, people were smoking cigarettes and a...
JULIA CHILD These laws were written some time ago. They were careful in some places and not in others.
LEE TIEN There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do in-hou...
DEAN ACOSTA There was some talk of him coming back this year, but he decided to stay down there because some col...
JASON ROBINSON We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, ...
DAT NGUYEN We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some...
MARILYN HACKER [Oh, and remember the near meltdown at United, struggling with labor problems and bad weather in the...
JOE BRANCATELLI In the suffragist and abolitionist era, there were a lot of white women and some black men and women...
GLORIA STEINEM I saw what government programs were and how they were executed. In some cases, they were executed be...
GWYNNE SHOTWELL We were always positive. There were some negative people, but they were wrong in the end.
ANTONIO MUNOZ The rally is hard and unfortunately this year there were some accidents.
LUC ALPHAND I was informed that there were 173 detainees held at an Interior Ministry prison and they appear to ...
IBRAHIM JAFARI He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a...
COREY SIMON He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was ...
COREY SIMON What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER Some worshippers were leaving and others were praying inside when the explosion blasted glass all ov...
AHMED HASSAN There were bribes; there were kickbacks; there was lax oversight from the Secretariat; and some memb...
JOHN BOLTON Maybe there were some answers, but they were not in the files.
BRUCE MYERS He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they w...
STEPHEN KING We got some nice performances. There were some good teams in this tournament, and we played a lot of...
DAVE LIPE Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of...
FULTON J. SHEEN There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather a...
AL FELDSTEIN Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowfl...
CLIVE BARKER They were just a horrible gang, and they've committed a tremendous amount of crimes in a short perio...
LARRY DUNCAN We were acknowledging great effort and accomplishments. It was a great sense of pride for me. As a r...
BOB CARROLL The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and ...
GREG GINN They were overpowered, they were not shot, they were killed by knives and other metal objects. Some ...
EMEKA UMEH Thousands and thousands of guys applied to be on the show, ... Some of them were crazy. Some of them...
DONALD TRUMP That was big because I thought they'd make some adjustments at halftime and make a run at us. It see...
GREG HEATH They were out there swapping alligator stories, giving all kinds of advice to each other,
JANICE HAHN Some were made with skill and intelligence
Some with passion and charm
But they, they were...
PEARL PANDYA When I was growing up, there were parties that I went to that were mostly Filipinos and maybe a coup...
CHAD HUGO Occasionally we had to carry a body bag out of there. Some were heavy like a full body and some were...
JOSEPH CAPRIOTTI There is sufficient evidence that results were deliberately manipulated, and Professor Hwang accepts...
ROE JUNG HYE I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.
STEVEN WRIGHT It was a big result and there were some terrific performances as well.
BILLY DAVIES We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, a...
JULES VERNE We were visited by whites, who always found coming into the black community to be interesting. Some ...
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MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN