Al Purdy quote: "For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive."

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we w...
AL PURDY

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.
AL PURDY

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
AL PURDY

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world.
AL PURDY

I started writing when I was about thirteen.
AL PURDY

I don't think I do have a soul.
AL PURDY

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
AL PURDY

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL PURDY

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.
AL PURDY

I don't think I do have a soul.
AL PURDY

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
AL PURDY

'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival.
AL PURDY

I love the smell of rain, and I love the sound of the ocean waves.
AMY PURDY

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a ...
AMY PURDY

Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by the...
LAWSON PURDY

Men must try and try again. They must suffer the consequences of their own mistakes and learn by ...
LAWSON PURDY

I was on my death bed, and I remember hanging on to these words, 'Don't be scared. You are g...
AMY PURDY

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Spor...
AMY PURDY

After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ...
AMY PURDY

I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY

I grew up born and raised in Las Vegas and actually grew up skiing. You know, we've got some ski...
AMY PURDY

We have a significant cyber risk in this country.
ANDY PURDY

The challenges are significant, but we believe we're making progress.
ANDY PURDY

We have to raise the bar (about security). This is the challenge.
ANDY PURDY

We have to send a message that the risk is real. Chief executives no longer have to rest assured tha...
ANDY PURDY

My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, t...
AMY PURDY

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very...
AMY PURDY

For me, a bad day is when I have nothing going on.
AMY PURDY

That's why people loved stories so, I realized in that instant, because they found in them what was ...
BRANDY PURDY

All servers have equal access to the data; our job is to keep the applications crunching on data and...
CAMERON PURDY

If we can't find ways for people to get rich [in software development], we're not going to attract t...
CAMERON PURDY

The number of things that we count as free today that used to cost money [such as TCP/IP] are quite ...
CAMERON PURDY

It's a pretty amazing jump technologically for us.
CAMERON PURDY

We did what we call the Work Manager where the data grid is tied around particular data. Think of it...
CAMERON PURDY

Growing up in the hot Last Vegas desert, all I wanted was to be free. I would daydream about traveli...
AMY PURDY

He was always mindful of keeping his spirits in check lest they soar unreasonably high.
KEVIN PURDY

I think this money is owed and due to the students in terms of scholarships of reduced interest rate...
ALLAN PURDY

I don't think that it's a big enough financial issue that they can't come to a decision by now.
ALLAN PURDY

In snowboarding, I've always looked at really strong competitors through a lens of gratitude rat...
AMY PURDY

Dancing is about expressing yourself, and the more walls you let down, the better.
AMY PURDY

We're a better team than our record shows. As we start to see some pitching, I know we can win some ...
BROOKS PURDY

You can't really make any excuses. But it's tough when you can't see any live pitching in practice a...
BROOKS PURDY

The legend of Decimus Croome seemed to expand like a parasitic beast feeding off the lifeblood of th...
KEVIN PURDY

Not all phones have high resolution images or video capability so [Magnolia's] chipset isn't going t...
GERRY PURDY

Teens and college-aged kids are the biggest purchasers of mobile content, yet they lack a way to pro...
GERRY PURDY

With 10MB of flash, users will have the ability to store and update locally referenced information, ...
GERRY PURDY

When you look at IBM over the last few years, a high-end ThinkPad used to be at $7,500. Now, the ent...
GERRY PURDY

A significant portion of the more than 25 million mobile professionals have a need for universal acc...
GERRY PURDY

Mobile computing is moving from the fringe to the mainstream. Portable computers are becoming the pr...
GERRY PURDY

This plethora of devices will make it challenging for each of us to try and figure out what's the ri...
GERRY PURDY

I understand he's really slowing down, but at 94, he's still an amazing guy.
TED PURDY

No one likes to carry a brick around, and this is the smallest, thinnest, lightest device that has a...
GERRY PURDY

Pish-posh and poppycock!!" Croome grumbled.
KEVIN PURDY

Who would want to be the prey in a world full of hunters?
~Disarming(Reign of Blood #2)
ALEXIA PURDY

We all have challenges. You can let them be obstacles or roadblocks, or you can use them.
AMY PURDY

I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values an...
AMY PURDY

Some people confess in the flesh, others on paper.
JAMES PURDY

The thing with prosthetic feet is you can't have all this crazy motion, or you'd be all over...
AMY PURDY

I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on t...
AMY PURDY

Just because I've got two prosthetic legs, yeah, I had to adapt in ways, but I've also becom...
AMY PURDY

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.
JAMES PURDY

Coyotes do view small animals as prey - small cats or small breed dogs may be attractive to the coyo...
ELETTA PURDY

We have no connection between that person and this attack.
ELETTA PURDY

He hated autumn, he hated Halloween and he despised uncooperative household fixtures.
KEVIN PURDY

Halloween creatures both friendly & gruesome peered out of the rustling leaves.
KEVIN PURDY

I always say snowboarding saved my life. It gave me a reason to focus on the future; it gave me some...
AMY PURDY

There are no rules in snowboarding.
AMY PURDY

In my dreams, whatever I am doing, I look down to see if I have prosthetics. It sets my time frame i...
AMY PURDY

A lot of it is not the actual crime, it's the fear of crime. So we need to keep that in perspective ...
DAVID PURDY

It also makes sense that there would be a shared arrangement for a state-of-art septic system with b...
DAVID PURDY

Amos, talk about pearls for teeth ... you got ‘em. No wonder the boys go for you, because I could ...
JAMES PURDY

Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads ...
JAMES PURDY

You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog and it keeps a run...
KATHY PURDY

Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them and are more likely to document their garden's pro...
KATHY PURDY

You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog, and it keeps a ru...
KATHY PURDY

Don't forget digital cameras. Gardeners love them, and are more likely to document their garden's pr...
KATHY PURDY

You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog and it keeps a run...
KATHY PURDY

You use a spreadsheet to list every plant or seed you want from a certain catalog, and it keeps a ru...
KATHY PURDY

My ultimate goal is to be a doctor, and you have to know how to run a business if you're going to be...
JUSTIN PURDY

The mentality we have, that whatever we think we can do, we can, that creates a whole culture on the...
JUSTIN PURDY

Last year, Australia won. This year, the Malaysian team is really strong. So it's not just a given t...
JUSTIN PURDY

He was working right until the last few days. He was a very active mind.
KIRK PURDY

Let me tell you, he was a very fair, very shrewd, very bright, very friend, very family-oriented. He...
KIRK PURDY

There has been some money taken off the commodities table as a whole in the last couple of days. Two...
MICHAEL PURDY

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorro...
AL-HASAN AL-BASRI

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are co...
AL GORE

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
AL GORE

Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
AL JARREAU

You can't change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything ...
AL FRANKEN

Love is a deception and a trap. Love is as big a myth that God sits with his flowing white beard in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN

My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf...
AL JARDINE

People who are overweight don't want unsolicited advice. Guess what. We know we're fat. We l...
AL ROKER

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
AL GORE

The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the c...
AL GORE

My spiritual life is... sometimes I have access to it and sometimes I don't. When I do have acce...
AL FRANKEN

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.
AL SHARPTON

I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy ...
AL SHARPTON

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal...
AL SHARPTON

To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If yo...
AL OERTER

I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
AL OERTER

It was like a tidal wave went through the city.
AL OERTER

It has to be the '80 Olympic hockey team.
AL OERTER

I never had technique.
AL OERTER

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at eac...
AL OERTER

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
AL SHARPTON

Deanna is a great pitcher, one of the best pitchers in the state. She does not get enough recognitio...
AL PEACOCK

I learned years ago you can shape your own destiny if you do get involved. There have always been a ...
AL PAZAR

There's a lot of overcapacity in the fishery that will need to be addressed. Probably that won't be ...
AL PAZAR

Every time you lose that pre-soak, the danger increases. It's the race to fish.
AL PAZAR

Newport stuck its neck out and did the heavy lifting. Some of the other ports resent us for that. Th...
AL PAZAR

It broke down this year, with both sides not able to agree, and so we went into our usual free-for-a...
AL PAZAR

That's fine if you keep playing this record over and over. It is going to be a very strong spring. T...
AL PARISH

It's going to continue to make realtors very happy. I haven't seen any unhappy people in that indust...
AL PARISH

Even though it's not the biggest property, it's getting in excess of $300 a night for a room. That's...
AL PARISH

It doesn't mean that everybody's condo went up 37 percent. It means they built more expensive condos...
AL PARISH

CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT

That's Fry. She settled down and came through for us.
AL NORTHINGTON

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.
AL NORTHINGTON

We didn't finish in that game. Tonight we finished.
AL NORTHINGTON

We made some mental mistakes, but we're still so young, and that's going to happen. Our four freshme...
AL NORTHINGTON

I'm so proud of these kids. It's a wonderful feeling to see these kids progress. This is a win for t...
AL NORTHINGTON

The president believes very strongly that this is going to have a major, major impact on economic gr...
AL HUBBARD

The recovery will be paid for by the federal taxpayer and it will add to the deficit.
AL HUBBARD

It's coming from the American taxpayer.
AL HUBBARD

The last thing in the world we need to do is raise taxes and retard economic growth.
AL HUBBARD

Poverty is a lagging indicator. It is sort of the last ratio that declines with an expanding economy...
AL HUBBARD

The president is totally committed to Social Security reform.
AL HUBBARD

Maybe people thought of us as a running team. Or a three-point shooting team. A no-contact team. We'...
AL HORFORD

Maybe we don't look like we're tough guys, but the bottom line is we get the job done. I know, Villa...
AL HORFORD

It's great to see your son doing his job on the court. But it was no surprise.
AL HORFORD

There was not much we could do (last season) because it wasn't our team. It was frustrating at times...
AL HORFORD

We're so anxious for the game to get here.
AL HORFORD

We lost most of our scoring (from a year ago). But we knew we were going to come out here and make t...
AL HORFORD

You always dreamed about getting to this point. It is big in my mind. I'm pretty excited about it.
AL HORFORD

You could just see it in their eyes. That's when we go for the kill.
AL HORFORD

I am feeling a lot better; I'm taking care of myself drinking a lot of fluids and stuff. So I feel p...
AL HORFORD

They were leaving the wrong guy open. When you leave Lee, he's going to make you pay for it.
AL HORFORD

[He could belt out traditional blues and jazz with the best of them, but -- to the dismay of jazz pu...
AL HIRT

I don't know, ... I do not know.
AL HIRT

I've been glued to the TV. I am absolutely devastated.
AL HIRT

The New Orleans I knew is gone, ... It's never going to come back. I'm just grateful I had my years ...
AL HIRT

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die befo...
AL HIRT

Rich could play way better than Krupa.
AL HIRT

Old Sharkey had a fat sound, man. He could blow like wild fire and when he played, I am telling you,...
AL HIRT

I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business.
AL HIRT

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.
AL HIRT

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested ...
AL HIRSCHFELD

We arrived at Penn Station, took the Amsterdam Avenue street car to the end of the line. There was a...
AL HIRSCHFELD

You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done, ... I am only intereste...
AL HIRSCHFELD

When I was about fourteen, my mother took me to see a musical comedy-and that was my first experienc...
AL HIRSCHFELD

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
AL HIRSCHFELD

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
AL HIRSCHFELD

$250,000 isn't a lot, but it is enough to make a statement. We are looking for projects that will be...
AL HENRY

I'm proud of our team. We great leadership from our four seniors - Peter Jerome, Josh Trottier, Alex...
AL HENRY

Give credit where credit is due. Fargo South is a machine.
AL HENRY

This is an OK way to end it. As far as I'm concerned, our team is the winner.
AL HENRY

I know the feds give us the same amount of money, as does the state, as does the county. But there's...
AL HARTKOPF

A traffic signal costs a lot more than $25,000. What can you say? They're getting off cheap.
AL HARTKOPF

I knew it was going to end up badly.
AL HARTKOPF

If it causes a little bit of difficulty for us, it just does.
AL HARTKOPF

I have very mixed feelings on it. I totally get where the commissioners are coming from. I see the p...
AL HARTKOPF

Would've, could've, should've. The bottom line is we didn't do it.
AL HARRIS

It wasn't him. It was us. We did it. We weren't afraid of Randy. We hurt our damn selves. On that se...
AL HARRIS

I wish him the best of luck. Of course, I want to win the game.
AL HARRIS

I don't think they were attacking me. I think they were going to their guy.
AL HARRIS

They have some serious weapons. We're going to have our hands full on Sunday.
AL HARRIS

He was with Detroit. I'm pretty sure we have some film on him. But it's no secret what they do.
AL HARRIS

You've got to watch yourself.
AL HARRIS

Bad! We needed it to pick ourselves back up.
AL HARRIS

It's not going to get any easier for us. I mean, the schedule only gets tougher. We've got to find a...
AL HARRIS

[In the end, not even the magic of No. 4, combined with the solid play of a young defense that seeme...
AL HARRIS

We could not put the ball in the hole, but the biggest thing is we did not get any stops defensively...
AL HARRINGTON

When someone is scoring like that, everybody else isn't involved. When they do shoot, they're ice co...
AL HARRINGTON

I'm sure he is from everything I hear, but I've got to wait until that happens.
AL HARRINGTON

When you're a bad team, you don't get any benefit-of-the-doubt calls. You see it on TV, the media kn...
AL HARRINGTON

It's been a long time coming.
AL HARRINGTON

I don't think you guys realize sometimes how connected we really are in that locker room. We are a f...
AL HARRINGTON

I got the call when I was getting into my car. I can't (pretend); I cried like a baby. I cried as so...
AL HARRINGTON

That's nonsense, and it's not fair to Coach and not fair to Jason. Jason never complained about anyt...
AL HARRINGTON

It's almost funny before you realize how sad it is. You want to try and tell somebody how to brace f...
AL HARRINGTON

Believe it or not, when it left my hand, it felt good.
AL HARRINGTON

It helps us determine which candidate might be the right match for Blue Valley Middle School.
AL HANNA

We are looking for a well-qualified, experienced administrator.
AL HANNA

He already knows a great deal about us and our operations. We think he will work well with staff and...
AL HANNA

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.
AL HANNA

This is a very tough loss for us. We felt like we had the game, but I have to give them credit. They...
AL HAMMELL

We'll really get into the fundamentals. It's something we hope to build on each year.
AL HAMMELL

I was impressed by how well our players interacted.
AL HAMMELL

It's about getting the younger players excited about baseball. We'll look forward to doing it each y...
AL HAMMELL

It was a great clinic for the first year.
AL HAMMELL

We had our players helping out with instruction.
AL HAMMELL

It's just something I've been doing for 10 years.
AL HAMMELL

We had about a total of over 50 kids this year.
AL HAMMELL

I think it is a very, very prestigious award for Story County. It shows that we are truly energy eff...
AL HAHN

If we don't go any further than we are right now, it is an extreme award for Story County.
AL HAHN

It is wonderful to be able to imagine a building system of this magnitude and then have it work at t...
AL HAHN

For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

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For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.

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