On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out of their cars, and bash their faces into pavement; Suck up that dirt like a good little Electrolux, Jersey Boy Bitch.
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Related This is one of those tracks that every little boy dreams about racing cars on. It really feels good ... KIRK SHELMERDINE The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some ... IQBAL QUADIR Just like a vacuum sucks up all the dirt on your floor, your negative associations suck the life out... JOHN DI LEMME There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are p... JOHN FOGERTY It seems like our town has closed down these days leading up to the funeral. Old people still sit on... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT She didn't want me to miss two days considering the players that we have out and how banged up we ar... CRAIG BIGGIO All great rock bands have a little dirt in their faces. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG I'm not sure of the count but that was one of the bad things for me, to see these little kids gettin... ERNIE WESTGARTH rifle on their backs, pistol on their hips, sweat on their brows, dust all over their faces, not kno... PEDRO HERNANDEZ And they fall down on their faces weeping, and it adds to their humility. QURAN You're going to have games like this. All that matters to me is that we were able to pull it out. It... JARRIUS JACKSON This is one of the big tracks every little boy dreams about racing cars on. I've had opportunities t... KIRK SHELMERDINE Any church that operates in prayerless and powerless Christianity spend their days and years conduct... STEVEN CHUKS NWAOKEKE Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University o... KEVIN PLANK We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finis... LUC ALPHAND We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down... AL STEWART You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL My week consists ... five days out of the seven I've got at least three cars of paparazzi on me that... BRAD PITT We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer ... AL STEWART It won't surprise me to see someone playing their fourth game in four days on Saturday. I just think... JIM CALHOUN When you have a new law like that put into effect, the public focuses on the issue, maybe drivers an... BOB THOMPSON You come out those first couple of days (of conditioning drills) and people want to know how everybo... JAY RICHARDSON Builders live on cash flow. If you were to stop their cash flow coming in for a period of 90 days, t... DALE GRAHAM Some days simply lay on you like stones. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h... LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their h... SAADI We need new pavement that people can drive their cars on. Onramps and new HOV lanes don't reduce con... BRETT BADER It's sad actually that people have to get rid of stuff like that just to put gas in their cars. And ... JEFF GULLEY They go to holy places for a bath, Their minds are impure and bodies are like thieves; If by bath th... GURU NANAK It is disappointing that elephants live in zoos and circuses, chained for days and months on end, fo... CAROL BUCKLEY As long as you lay down on the pavement, you will be walked on, spit on and play on.Stand up and be ... TANICA S HALL And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else w... PAUL RYAN People are able to pull money out of their homes and put it into their gas tanks. So the overall eff... MARK ZANDI It was such a great time. 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And some days you feel li... PAULA WALL You want to get everybody in on the party and make everybody feel good. Today was one of those days ... PHIL GARNER Chad's at home seven days a week working on these cars. It's pretty easy to unload fast when you've ... DARIAN GRUBB You choose to be happy, and in life we have as many good days as bad days. I try to find and record ... RODNEY ATKINS I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY It's like all guys want to do is make a dunk, grab their shirt and yell out and scream - they co... OSCAR ROBERTSON Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rag... DYLAN THOMAS It keeps me up at night with all that's going on these days. The online world is turning into such a... ARISTOTLE BALOGH [Spectrum] is like a highway, ... You may not have the cars on it at the time, but you will soon. ALLEN NOGEE I'm not trying to criticize the plow drivers because I know their job is difficult. And I don't driv... DENNIS JENSEN I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me... ANNE LAMOTT The whole house was just shaking, then the roof came off. It blew all of the furniture out the back ... DALE DORMER Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that ... EOIN COLFER Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, f... ROBERT KIYOSAKI Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and th... EOIN COLFER The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want... IRVINE WELSH What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put... JAMES JOYCE We didn't pull out a marker and get on the board at halftime. We just kind of appealed to their comp... POKEY CHATMAN I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good... KATIE LEDECKY I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the street... JOSEPH CONRAD A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to ... JAMES THURBER Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, ... DYLAN THOMAS Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Why can't some of the … helicopters that we have heard flying overhead for days and days and days ... BRIAN WILLIAMS I always wonder about raindrops. I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping... TAHEREH MAFI Any dealer who would sell on a Sunday would jeopardize their license by doing so. Consumers like the... TIM JACKSON They called me into their office, they said their piece, I said my piece -- it was very professional... ALAN EMBREE What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time . The wonderful luxury of being at r... ELLEN GOODMAN It brings some newness, some freshness. Any time a change is made, the newness of the teammates, eve... DWAYNE CASEY Time and again, he imagined climbing the crumbling pylons of the bridge, folding his uniform neatly ... BARBARA NICKLESS They have the luxury of doing it with Trachsel here. Two days is two days; it's not a whole turn. It... KRIS BENSON It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, be... ELIZABETH PERKINS We have three dedicated lines just to handle the calls. Once the drivers learn their routes and the ... BILL NEWMAN Her tea basket was still lost, but that didn’t seem to matter now. People used to eat loose tea on... L.L. BARKAT I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to t... SAM DONALDSON Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciat... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their im... SASHA ROIZ They [the Jews] suck them like leeches. I'm so tired of it. They start out the most popular person i... MICHAEL JACKSON I didn't want to air dirty laundry, ... and on Friday, 45 days was up. JUDY DAVIS Their training was only interrupted a couple of days, ... They were able to stay on mission. TIM DONOVAN I was pleased to see that even back in the glory days of the Folly people left their mugs of tea on ... BEN AARONOVITCH IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear a... TERRY PRATCHETT A lot of barns in those days had arrows painted on their roofs and other messages to let the pilots ... FLORA BALMER Back in the days of the Roman Empire, when soldiers returned home from battle, the women laid palms ... BARBARA GRIFFIN I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces li... MARK E. SMITH After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c... WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y... GEORGE BURNS If they want to get pregnant, those white bead days are the days to have intercourse. If they don't ... VICTORIA JENNINGS You are made out of comets and stars. Do not surround yourself with those<... NOOR SHIRAZIE This is exactly what we needed. Their dedication really shows on days like today, and we will contin... CARMEN MIROCHNA Even with the stolen cars they'll swap out parts on their broken cars. THOMAS SANTOS
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JOHN BURROUGHS Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influen... JOHN BURROUGHS Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. JOHN BURROUGHS Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communi... JOHN BURROUGHS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t... JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things." JOHN BURROUGHS Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion. JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. JOHN BURROUGHS Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst tim... JOHN BURROUGHS Without death and decay, how could life go on? JOHN BURROUGHS Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and... JEREMIAH BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s... JOHN BURROUGHS Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun... JOHN BURROUGHS I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ... JOHN BURROUGHS The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ... JOHN BURROUGHS He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ... JOHN BURROUGHS The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its... JOHN BURROUGHS Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami... JOHN BURROUGHS The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. JOHN BURROUGHS In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da... JOHN BURROUGHS To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b... JOHN BURROUGHS The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ... JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JOHN BURROUGHS I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The momen... JOHN BURROUGHS It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the real... JOHN BURROUGHS England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. JOHN BURROUGHS August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haz... JOHN BURROUGHS One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challen... JOHN BURROUGHS I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. JOHN BURROUGHS To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not de... JOHN BURROUGHS It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the su... JOHN BURROUGHS Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i... JOHN BURROUGHS The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ... JOHN BURROUGHS When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham... JOHN BURROUGHS The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent... JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self... JOHN BURROUGHS The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ... JOHN BURROUGHS Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci... JOHN BURROUGHS The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being... JOHN BURROUGHS One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ... JOHN BURROUGHS If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from... JOHN BURROUGHS Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia... JEFF BURROUGHS Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to... JOHN BURROUGHS The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen... JOHN BURROUGHS The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together. JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro... JOHN BURROUGHS Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times JOHN BURROUGHS To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. JOHN BURROUGHS Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin... JOHN BURROUGHS The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in
winter; the fleshy, in summer. I... JOHN BURROUGHS