I thought he knew me better than most...Then one nigh Jack brought me flowers, a handful of fading daisies he'd picked up at a farm stand, but flowers all the same. That was the end; that was how he ruined everything.
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Related Jack Broughton was a fighter, the father of boxing. He had a fondness for flowers and his sister nam... EMMA RICHLER I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about t... LLOYD C. DOUGLAS I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn�... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared... RUTH BADER GINSBURG I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers.... JENNIFER ANISTON I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my da... CHRIS KYLE I really thought Roy was going to retire after the Johnson fight. That's what he told me, and I beli... ALTON MERKERSON One of the things that amazed me about Mrs. King was ... how much of a participant she was in every ... DIGBY DIEHL I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t... IRIS APFEL I knew he was a shooter, but that last deep one that he hit, that surprised me. ISAIAH SWANN One of my teammates said he was lifting his hand up, signaling (another referee) to wait. And I thou... AYSHA JAMANI My mom used to say, 'Give me my flowers while I can smell them,' and I got the same feeling when I f... HARRY CARSON I knew before the game, I knew if they needed a long one he would make it because he was getting it ... MARK MATLAK I knew she was right. Of course she was right. Bex was always right. She knew me better than I knew ... ALLY CARTER He set a bunch of records back in high school. I think everyone knew he was going to be good back th... DAVID GILLILAND He told me that at the end of last year. I guess it was supposed to make me feel better. MARK SHAPIRO Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to m... FAT JOE God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway<... ROBERT FROST I was laughed at by everyone upon every occasion. But no one knew or guessed that if there was a man... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Pooh looked at his two paws. He knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had d... WINNIE THE POOH He was a hero before that, ... He was so unselfish, someone who brought out the best in people. ... ... FRANK DEANGELIS I admire Jack for many things, but especially for the way he always treated our relationship. Jack w... TOM WATSON It's all the time. He is a very caring and giving person and he gives me flowers all the time. KAY VAUGHAN Chide me not, laborious band!
For the idle flowers I brought;
Every aster in my hand
Goe... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But ... IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM He was a simple guy, a quiet person, always good-natured. On every birthday he would bring me someth... MARIA GOMEZ I thought I was a pretty good physical specimen. But there was a teenager from Brooklyn, who basical... BERNHARD GOETZ He was big enough. I knew better than to let him get a hold of me. ... That kinda took the fight out... BOB TATE We knew Chatman was a driver. I thought the shot he took at the end was in. JAY LAWSON He looked pretty awesome today. He sat off that pace and I really liked how he was extending. Victor... BOB BAFFERT Alec pulled his knees up to his chest and looked thoughtfully at Jace. “I know,” he said. “I�... CASSANDRA CLARE One of the things that has brought me a lot of success the last five years was performing. At my fir... JENNY PHILLIPS We all knew he was (staying). Obviously I know that he was offered that deal, but he thought about a... KARON BRADLEY He made a comment that said the flowers in Terri's room were being treated better than she is. That ... BRIAN SCHIAVO I had a very big crush on Errol Flynn during 'Captain Blood.' I thought he was absolutely sm... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio s... RINGO STARR One of the first things was these little tape measures. Advertising tape measures that I picked up a... JUDY WILLIAMS I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. ANWAR EL-SADAT I knew he could shoot the ball but he played aggressive defense and that was what I was most concern... DWIGHT TAYLOR I knew that pass was coming. He throws me passes like that at home all the time. GRIFFAN CALLAHAN That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked ... EOIN COLFER My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a b... ANDREW STRAUSS When he let it go, I knew it was good, he knew it was good and I think the whole entire Clemente Cen... BILLY MIMS Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me. "See?" he said. "Now you ... CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE All along I knew [the draft] was coming, but all along, I was focused on the Final Four. I didn't re... MONIQUE CURRIE He had a green thumb. He loved to water the plants and cut the flowers. He was so proud of how his t... LARRY GARZA They lined it right up at me. They found me because they thought I messed it up the week before, but... DREW STANTON He was actually too good. I played a great first set and then he was playing much better than me. GASTON GAUDIO No sooner had he thought this than he realized what was anchoring his happiness. It was purpose. He ... TRENTON LEE STEWART I stared at him. Did he really just say that? Did he remember? The way he looked back at me, one eye... JENNY HAN I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids... AMY CHUA I think that was when dad first realized how serious my twin brother and myself were of learning the... REX RYAN Tangible is what the company does to appease customers, and psychological is how they do it. For exa... KRISTEN DETIENNE He's doing horribly, horribly. He told me all along that he thought it was one of the neighbors. NANCY GRACE God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she ... VICTOR HUGO When I saw him at his best
When everything was at its worst
He has proven me and the rest of the wor... HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's ... SAMMY HAGAR There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. ELBERT HUBBARD I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the... RANDY BACHMAN He knew who I was and that I was a fighter, and he said 'I'd like you train me, will you teach me?' ... AARON BRINK I never saw him. I asked coach, 'How did he do that?' My teammates said I was dribbling like crazy, ... LEANDRO BARBOSA I never saw him. I asked coach, 'How did he do that?' My teammates said I was dribbling like crazy a... LEANDRO BARBOSA He was an extremely modest person, one of the humblest people I knew, although some people might not... JAMES KOSHIBA He pointed at me and said, 'that one won't stand up.' The two policemen came near me and only one sp... ROSA PARKS My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you e... RICK SMOLAN When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS We knew he was going to be good. He was very quick, he was really quick. One thing that impressed me... BILL CLIFFORD I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him ... SOURCE UNKNOWN I knew he was a shooter. But that last deep one he hit? That surprised me. I was like, 'Wow.' That w... ISAIAH SWANN I felt a numb shock as I drove home anxious to get my chocolate flowers and wondering how my mother ... JORI NUNES I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me ... HELEN NILES At first I thought, 'he's a teenager, he's irritable,' but then I knew it was more than that. Then h... JANE SMITH And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was neare... THOMAS MANN Catch me, Seth," she invited. He paused. "Faeries chase," he said, an then , with a flirta... MELISSA MARR I thought '23' was kind of an odd number, ... I asked for 14, and Yosh totally turned me down and sa... RYNE SANDBERG He yelled at me the most. We clashed because he thought I could contribute the most. I appreciate ev... ARMEIN KIRKLAND A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet ... PENNY JORDAN A thoughtful cup of tea brought to your bedside each morning means more to me than the huge bouquet ... PENNY JORDAN I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much tha... EMILIA FOX He showed no character on that particular play. I was shocked. I thought he was a better type of per... ELVIS DUMERVIL Al handles all of that for us. He gives me everything he has on Wisconsin-Milwaukee and then he begi... JOANNE P. MCCALLIE Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hi... MICHAEL SCHENKER He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Do... MARK SPITZ People give flowers as present because flowers contain true meaning of love. Anyone who tries to pos... PAULO COELHO We grew up on a ranch in North Dakota. Paige was really good at breaking horses. But one day this ho... GERARD BAKER I was mad at the pitch before being called a strike, I was mad I swung at that, and then he hung me ... LARRY WALKER I knew everything he did (physically) influenced how he behaved. They couldn't be separated from eac... PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to los... RUTA SEPETYS She used to tell me she had no idea how Jack was getting so drunk. But we figured it out. Then he ha... PETER GUNTHER Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me ... JOE SHUSTER Turns out, the consultant's dream was to build a management information system from scratch because ... BOB PRICE It was Peter’s island, Peter who’d brought us here, and in the back of every boy’s mind was so... CHRISTINA HENRY I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, ... JAMES BROWN One day, I was at my grandmother's house, and I found diaries that she kept as a young girl. I o... LAURA AMY SCHLITZ You have to be patient with him. Travis doesn't remember much about it, but he was close to his mom,... JAMIE MCGUIRE Sure you are," Jack replied. He sashayed up next to me, and yes, it was a sashay, he was far too dam... CANDICE GILMER I thought it sounded great, but at the same time I said, 'I think I am going to puke,' because you c... CHESTER BENNINGTON I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got thi... SUSAN E. ISAACS Cary Grant was wonderful to work with on stage. He would move downstage, so that as he looked at me ... FAY WRAY No question. He came in when Ryan was struggling. I thought Ryan battled for not having less than gr... GARY POWERS
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I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN