It's the thing that hits home with Americans.
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ANITA LOOS The thing I keep coming back to with Eric is his attitude. You always hear that message about living...
MARK MACDONALD Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.
CASEY STENGEL I've spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W. Bush live...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN For many Americans, working toward owning their own home is the dream of a lifetime. Carefully consi...
ANDREW B. CROCKER This home fits right into its neighborhood. It is a mainstream home. Seventy percent of the new home...
DAVID PRESSLY We only had eight hits that game and four of them were home runs. We got those key hits, which is am...
EDGAR SOTO I knew with The West Wing that that wasn't going to be for very long, that I was just the red he...
WILLIAM DEVANE What always frightens people is personal exposure, ... Nothing hits home like pricking yourself with...
BILL SINGER That's a red herring. They just don't want us in the market.
CHRIS CARROLL We, African-Americans, need to be more conscious of Africa. Africa will not get out of its economic ...
HARRY ALFORD Google is taking a lot of hits to its image as a benevolent spreader of new and better technology. I...
CHARLENE LI [The Hits 1789-'97 George Washington was serenaded with new words to] God Save the King ... I don't ...
THOMAS PAINE Boston's a hole, the herring-pond is wide.
ROBERT BROWNING Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.
CASEY (CHARLES DILLON) STENGEL When it happens right next door, it really hits home.
JACKIE HARDER Whether or not Americans supported George W. Bush, they could not avoid learning about Abu Ghraib.
REBECCA MACKINNON It's when you wear fishnet stockings that you catch more than herring.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS They show how important it was to us as Americans that everyone had a home.
JEANNE LAMBIN The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly someth...
TUCKER CARLSON This is so realistic, the message hits home so quickly. They'll remember this.
LISA SAUNDERS You really don't feel disasters like these until it hits home.
CHARLES SCOTT Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar ...
BERT CAMPANERIS Neither fish, flesh nor good red herring.
TOM BROWN It's an asinine assumption, a red herring.
KYLE HUPFER Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
DAISY ASHFORD There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.
ALVIN DARK Right now, the sad fact is that too many Americans are working harder and harder and earning less an...
WESLEY CLARK We look to have three more storms coming here. Crab fishing is a weather-permitting thing. I am gett...
JOE MANTUA We've seen some troubling signs. Like almost every fish and shellfish that uses the bay, Pacific her...
ZEKE GRADER We could never string a rally together. When we did get our hits, we got guys in scoring position, b...
RALPH CARLSON Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
CASEY (CHARLES DILLON) STENGEL Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
CASEY STENGEL When I go to a gig and I hear a song that I really like, a song that hits home to me or hits an emot...
VANCE JOY He was a small person and very soft spoken, but he was a huge presence in the department and the uni...
GEORGE HERRING That's a pretty pivotal period in the war.
GEORGE HERRING The first major congressional challenge to executive leadership in the Vietnam War, the Cooper-Churc...
GEORGE HERRING There's a growing desire to get out of Iraq, almost regardless of the consequences. This is the way ...
GEORGE HERRING obvious growing signs of war weariness, frustration, anger and disillusionment.
GEORGE HERRING The great thing about George is that he can stand back and let his managers create.
GARY HOENIG The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of star...
J.K. ROWLING The thing about growing up with Fred and George,” said Ginny thoughtfully, “is that you sort of ...
J.K. ROWLING At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the intere...
JOHN KERRY I'm not comparing Bush to Adolf Hitler - because George Bush, for one thing, is not as smart as ...
DAVID CLENNON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON, SR. The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON SR. It's rewarding to help our fellow Americans, ... The crew knows that these people don't have a home ...
DAVID HOPPER The Americans are at home and we are away. He's had a change of scenery and a change in racing condi...
LUCA CUMANI For many Americans, the home is the biggest investment they'll make in their lifetimes. Whatever dri...
LARRY STONE The inaugural of Ronald Reagan, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. And that was the greatest thing....
DON RICKLES Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary ...
WILD THING You know George doesn't like to think of his childhood home as historic yet.
LAURA BUSH We didn't just want to go out and do that whole greatest hits thing.
ANDY TAYLOR It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will ...
DAVID LIMBAUGH The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD The most beautiful thing that could happen to you is also the most dangerous. You'll be defenseless....
PHILLIP AQUINO Americans need to know that we support them and will assist them in any way. It's imperative that ou...
STOCKWELL DAY Darren McFadden hits the hole quicker than anybody, ... He is a home run hitter and he proved that a...
HOUSTON NUTT Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL Amy Lee's little brother has epilepsy, so it kind of hits close to home for me,
BEN MOODY It's fun to fall in love with something new every week. In the summer the first new potatoes make pe...
JANI LEHTINEN There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, a...
D.H. LAWRENCE 'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hung...
NINA EASTON This team is at its best when it's putting hits together. It's what we have to do to be successful w...
ERIC YOUNG a red herring... There's absolutely no gain for him out of it.
ARTHUR ANDERSON Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher,
it goes ill with the pitcher.
CERVANTES MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of it...
JOE FARMER The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wea...
HOWARD DEAN I think Americans will begin to see a rejuvenated Dan Quayle with great campaign skills, ... George ...
DAVID MCINTOSH My wife [Melissa] talked to his mom, and she said he led every league coming up in home runs. The ma...
DUSTY BAKER One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain
BOB MARLEY The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulati...
RICK RENZI I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.
ROBERT EVANS Kreacher said nothing,” said the elf, with a second bow to George, adding in a clear undertone, �...
J.K. ROWLING I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
ALAN BLEASDALE I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
JOSH BILLINGS Once the ball hits your hands, the next thing should be the ball leaving your hands.
DAVID JACKSON This is the one they take seriously, more than the STAR testing. It hits home for them. It affects t...
DAVE HORSEY I think the single thing that George brought was his interest in and introduction of Indian music in...
ALAN LIGHT If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel
ANN LANDERS I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as p...
TAVIS SMILEY It really hits home when you see something like this. Lots of people have lost their whole existence...
FRANZ BACHMANN You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have ...
AZIZ ANSARI At our production company, the trademark dish - and this sounds particularly revolting - is curried ...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER If Americans believed in this Bible's hell, they would have hung George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for ...
BOBBY W. MILLER Gracie comes home from the hospital after visiting a sick friend. (George) 'Where did you get the fl...
GRACIE ALLEN We finally came through with some bit hits -- that was the difference in the game. Zach threw real w...
THAD NELSON Our intelligence -- the reason we have it in many forms around the world is to protect Americans at ...
PORTER GOSS One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
BOB MARLEY This legislation will allow the federal government to enhance its law enforcement resources so that ...
ERIC STERN It really hits home when you've got people down there and people's homes and their lives are changin...
MARCUS TRUFANT Americans have seen plants closed down, jobs shipped overseas, and our hopes fade away as our econom...
ZELL MILLER Lower taxes are great, but if its going to cost you money, it's not worth it. If a stock hits your s...
DAVID MELLEM The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's...
HOWARD DEAN That hits close to home because we'll be there. We'll definitely feel that sense, probably say a pra...
GARY BRACKETT Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as Presid...
STEPHEN KINZER This project found its home and it's home,
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GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
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GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL