I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
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I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
MICHAEL COLLINS I think even before I knew I wanted to be a rapper, I wanted to be an entertainer. I was really into...
CHANCE THE RAPPER I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until ever last one of us was gone.
A.J. EVERSLEY Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be ...
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be...
BABE DIDRIKSON ZAHARIAS I’d kiss you, too, if I was closer.”(claire)
“I wouldn’t,” Michael said. “I don’t...
RACHEL CAINE The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone...
ALBERT EINSTEIN No erupting volcano in Alaska has ever been this closely monitored before.
GAME MCGIMSEY That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE When I learned that I knew nothing, I realised I knew more than I ever did before.
JIM GENOVESE Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best w...
JULIA ROBERTS This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever hav...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER Even though I had been in that situation before, I was nervous for every one of those shots. I knew ...
NANCY WHITE Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself tha...
GEORGE ORWELL People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about hi...
CARSON MCCULLERS Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
LANCE BURTON I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn...
ANNE HATHAWAY In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
FRANZ KAFKA In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be
understood by everyone, something that ...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
'DOC' EDGERTON Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone.. than I ever have before.
BEN FOLDS He was a big part of Collins Hill. And there was no better way to honor him than playing the way we ...
MAYA MOORE The first thing I ever rode when I was a kid was a motorcycle, so I knew how to drive a motorcycle b...
JOHN TRAVOLTA Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
BEN FOLDS There's no place in the world you can go and not hear rock-and-roll, from Michael Jackson and St...
AHMET ERTEGUN That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that n...
PAUL DIRAC I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I co...
ANNE HATHAWAY I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL I've always been an improviser. I was one before I knew even what the word was... And acting, th...
ALAN ARKIN I was normal. ... I was an earthling last season, ... I had to go back to my alien roots.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL When I learn that I know nothing, I realize I know more than I ever knew before.
JIM GENOVESE I created my lane. No one can ever run my lane because it's mine. I'm the Michael Jackson of...
YOUNG JEEZY As I was going to the podium, I told Michael I could not remember the way because it has been so lon...
JEAN TODT I knew she was going to be a very good softball player. I watched her before she ever got to high sc...
DAVE THOMPSON Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I wa...
JANE SMILEY I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
CARA DELEVINGNE When I learned that I know nothing, I realized I knew more now than I ever did before.
JIM GENOVESE I was directing before I knew it was called that.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the c...
TINY TIM I asked him point blank if he had ever slept in bed with Michael Jackson. He said no.
IRENE PETERS When I made my first film, I had hardly ever seen a camera before, and I was a young man when I arri...
LEOS CARAX You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes yo...
HARUKI MURAKAMI I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless...
PATRICIA HEATON I swear I was in high school before I even knew he was a judge.
JASON SIMMONS As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes before I ever flew in one. I really knew, when I started p...
MARY ELLEN MARK It's nothing like on TV, ... On the way down there we knew we had no idea what it was going to be li...
CHRIS WHITE Coach has faith in me. I knew he was a great coach. No one has such trust in his players.
DOMINIC JAMES It's a gender equity issue that (UI) missed. I think it's a wonder that no one has ever said anythin...
ERIN BUZUVIS He was able, in short ... to bring the owners together as partners in a way that has never been done...
ANDREW ZIMBALIST You asked me questions nobody ever asked me before. You knew that I was a murderer two times over, b...
RICHARD WRIGHT Berkley has a good team. They'd won a lot of games. If there was a difference in overtime, I think i...
LOU SCHMIDT At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life...
RICHARD WRIGHT I think, in some ways, Michael Jackson is out of touch with reality, and I don't think he has people...
ED BRADLEY I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did ...
ALEX CHILTON I thought (Collins) was very effective. It appeared that they listened.
JOAN MCDONALD Everyone here has always treated me like thier daughter. It doesn't matter who it is, and it was eve...
SHANNON MILLER I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did ...
ALEX CHILTON Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable no...
DAVID BOWIE I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.
BUDDY RICH I knew exactly when he came over by himself, something was wrong. He is the smartest kid I have ever...
BRITTANY DAVIS It is for this
reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in
time alon...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I knew a lot before simply because I was born in Fort Worth.
MAX HILL Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected ...
ANDY WARHOL Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected t...
ANDY WARHOL Before (the victims) knew it, their vehicle was riddled with bullets. They had no way to escape.
CRAIG HILL I really had to get over not being able to walk for a week and then not being able to run for months...
ERIN LIPPIE I cannot say that it was hard work. No work with interest is ever hard. I always am certain of resul...
HENRY FORD No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and m...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and m...
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and...
THOMAS ALDRICH I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could ...
CARL STOKES He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened ...
CHRISTINE KEELER Either way, I knew I was going to the district. I've been raised to be a good sportsman.
ERIC JONES I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew ...
PADGETT POWELL He knew that I love you also means I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or w...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way...
ANN BEATTIE I knew I was getting weaker, ... By then I knew that staying wasn't the smartest thing I'd ever done...
KEITH FAULKNER Was Michael Jackson ever on a single call?
ROBERT SANGER He has been less process oriented and less programmed than I've ever seen him. He has a much more ea...
ELAINE KAMARCK I knew that, in my whole life, if I married Aspen or someone else, no one would ever make me feel th...
KIERA CASS I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I was a freethinker before I knew how to think
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Michael Booker has helped me out a lot, and I hope that in a way I have helped him too. We've looked...
BRODERICK FRANKLIN I knew her before she was a virgin.
OSCAR LEVANT Before I did that, there was no way to contain your vision. That's why I created a pond 'room' in wh...
JACK CHANDLER I knew that she couldn’t hear me if she was there. But the sound was enough to grab me, to hold me...
SHAWN KIRSTEN MARAVEL Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ...
WAYNE NEWTON Alone: it was no way to live and it was no way to die.
ROB THURMAN No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.
BETTY CUTHBERT I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familia...
JAMES FREY It has always been my ambition to win this event. I have tried two or three times before but on this...
DERARTU TULU You can replicate anything that has ever been done on earth before
SUNDAY ADELAJA Even with their second goal I knew we could do it, ... We've been there before and Kerry hadn't. Tha...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss," Gale says softly.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
SUZANNE COLLINS It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
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SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.
Always.
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SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
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Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
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SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
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"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
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SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
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Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"
"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.
"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."
Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS