Alan Garner
Related JEFFREY FRY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA THOMAS CARLYLE NORMAN O. BROWN Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA [The yarmulke] is an indication that one recognizes that there is something above you. It says, "Abo... PINCHAS STOLPER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING JEANETTE CORON RICHARD GERE PATRICK ROTHFUSS DEYTH BANGER QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference... KATHRYN SCHULZ CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE WILMA MANKILLER ARUNDHATI ROY KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board. D.M. TIMNEY Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. C. JOYBELL C. ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Intellectualism is trivial compared to affairs of the heart. MARTY RUBIN Nothing tastes nor smells psychologically as good as the original. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) OSCAR WILDE Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON
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BOB GARNER It's not what you shoot (on a hunting trip) that brings you back, BOB GARNER To fish 365 days a year, it's pretty cheap stuff - you can't get much cheaper than that. BOB GARNER It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echo... HELEN GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER His only downfall was walking Nuñez, and then he hit Luna with two strikes. You expect when you get... PHIL GARNER I might not have done it had he been really swinging the bat well, but sometimes you need a mental b... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER I moved him for Morgan. When he came back from the hand injury, I wanted him in a position where guy... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER It was rare, ... We've not seen that from him really all year. He couldn't find (the strike zone), a... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER My goal has always been longevity. Not fame and fortune, just get a job and keep it. JAMES GARNER Maybe this is pathetic, but I still dread producing a book that doesn't earn back its advance. I... HELEN GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of ... HELEN GARNER Until Taylor gets his stripes, he'll have to be moved around. PHIL GARNER Sworn to secrecy, You better catch it early. PHIL GARNER The bruise is diffused somewhat, so he doesn't have a big (welt) the size of a watermelon on his kne... PHIL GARNER The umpire said he went to his mouth. It was a bad call. It was a mistaken call. It's unfortunate th... PHIL GARNER Things went very well in the surgery and he's in Georgia with (wife) Jennifer and the baby and thing... PHIL GARNER I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to d... HELEN GARNER What you saw tonight is not unusual for Roy, PHIL GARNER We are a different club and we are probably not as offensively as potent as we were last year. We ce... PHIL GARNER We're a different club. We're not as offensively potent as last year, but our pitching is more solid... PHIL GARNER We were in a great, seething moment in the 1970s. There was a new Labour government and everything s... HELEN GARNER I want a guy who can clean my gutters and kill my spiders - who's simple yet layered. KELLI GARNER I think people like to see a little larceny in their heroes. JAMES GARNER JENNIFER GARNER I guess I could say the bruise is sort of diffused somewhat so he doesn't have a half sized watermel... PHIL GARNER Wagner's tough. We all know how good he is. We just buckled down. PHIL GARNER We've just got this demon hanging over our head, and it's a zero. PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, a... JAMES GARNER A wild and wacky summer, PHIL GARNER It's all swollen up and puffed up. I think it had a little effect on him. He wasn't quite as sharp a... PHIL GARNER I don't think these are guys that you walk in and say, 'Hey, you need to start doing this now.' He n... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER I really think the homer changed Roy. We had the momentum early and gave it back. But when Mike hit ... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER But there are some wounds that can never be healed. HELEN GARNER As in all matters involving love, which has so many different meanings, you find that the feeling th... HELEN GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER Two really brilliant performances, PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER He did not go to his mouth. He was sweating profusely on his face. He wiped his eyebrow across his n... PHIL GARNER A high payroll guarantees you wins. It doesn't guarantee you championships. If you let me spend $100... PHIL GARNER No question it's like the 600-pound gorilla in the room. No one wants to talk about it. ... I'll be ... PHIL GARNER We didn't have much leeway to run, ... When they're 1.2 (seconds) to the plate and with Molina, that... PHIL GARNER I wasn't a rookie in pennant races, but I was a rookie calling the shots. The players made me look g... PHIL GARNER It was absolutely rotten, PHIL GARNER I think it's sort of a neat story that 'Rocket' is going to be the guy to take the ball in the first... PHIL GARNER He might be the best all-around player in baseball today. If we're going to put our money somewhere ... PHIL GARNER We dug ourselves an early hole and we never able to get into our game plan. We made some adjustments... BLAIR GARNER JENNIFER GARNER I've had to work hard at that easy-going manner you see on screen. JAMES GARNER People who don't know me think I'm easy-going, but I'm a pessimist by nature and an old ... JAMES GARNER If I say I am concerned, it seems like there's a red flag. There are no red flags. I just hope it's ... PHIL GARNER We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the off... PHIL GARNER He did a good job of making pitches when he needed to. We'd like to see him pitch ahead a bit more. ... PHIL GARNER We've had trouble scoring runs this season, period. I don't think guys are trying too hard when Roge... PHIL GARNER I think he'll go as long as he wants. PHIL GARNER You want to get everybody in on the party and make everybody feel good. Today was one of those days ... PHIL GARNER You've got to try to jump on a pitch early, get something that gets a little bit of the plate. If th... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER It's been a trait of ours all year and we managed to win even though we hadn't done that, PHIL GARNER The obvious explanation is it's kind of a surprise thing, the sudden sort of visual arrival of human... JOSEPH GARNER It was a marvelous script. ... It's a beautifully framed movie, it's beautifully cast and wonderfull... JAMES GARNER I think Lamb is a very good hitter, ... I've let Lamb hit in that situation many times. PHIL GARNER There were a whole lot of things last year that made me nervous. Starting off last season, I did not... PHIL GARNER It's terrible. You're high as a kite. The mistake we make is walking Edmonds. PHIL GARNER It's terrible, you're high as a kite one minute. PHIL GARNER There's no question that 600-pound gorilla was in the room that no one wanted to talk about. If you ... PHIL GARNER She worked at the soda fountain at Woolworth's in Little Rock, and they met there. MICHAEL GARNER I think his hip was bothering him a little. It's very uncharacteristic of him to have that kind of i... PHIL GARNER Andrea was playing on one leg and Sam is sicker than a dog. Our depth at center was a lot shallower ... STEVE GARNER The man's amazing. He keeps on keeping on, doesn't he? Isn't he something? PHIL GARNER Every road game in this conference is going to be tough. Every game's a fight. It seems like we're b... BLAIR GARNER I am proud of the kids and the season that they had. They never gave up all season and they never ga... BLAIR GARNER The interesting thing about him is that Dr. Mac, for all of the bravado about wanting to hold the li... PHIL GARNER This was a bitter pill to swallow. This was one we felt we could get. We couldn't pull it off. GARY GARNER What Mulder has done is really solidify their rotation. It enables them to put pitchers in a third a... PHIL GARNER We had some other opportunities and couldn't break through. When your big guys go to the mound, you'... PHIL GARNER I would have said, we're in a lot of deep stew here. PHIL GARNER I'm sure he'll be fine. It's just bruised. I wanted to be cautious. PHIL GARNER This is the first year we can give a thumbs-up to a water supply for everyone. Hopefully, it will co... CHUCK GARNER When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, ... JAMES GARNER There's not any profitability there, ... Those two stores were probably not going to come back to pr... JAMES GARNER I'm letting the police deal with that, JAMES GARNER The union could put a bid in if they choose to, JAMES GARNER We worked very hard to get this for the retirees. JAMES GARNER [Phil Garner 's wife, Carol, was struck on the wrist last week by a bat that went sailing into the s... PHIL GARNER He didn't go to his mouth on the mound. He was simply sweating profusely on his face and was wiping ... PHIL GARNER I think there's going to be a sequel on it; this is going to be the greatest game ever played, PHIL GARNER We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back. PHIL GARNER Brad had a fantastic year. He was just outstanding. When you don't notice the catcher, that's when h... PHIL GARNER You have to let Edmonds hit the ball. You can't walk him and [catcher] Brad [ Ausmus ] knows that ..... PHIL GARNER [The Astros have been shut out 17 times. Nine of those came when Clemens pitched.] I'm perplexed by ... PHIL GARNER We've been resilient. We're going to test our mettle now. We'll see how we bounce back. PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER If he could pinch-hit, I'd have him in [the starting lineup] probably. PHIL GARNER We know we have a daunting task. PHIL GARNER It was a very nice gesture on the club's part, PHIL GARNER It's very small. It's like a mosquito bite, is the way it was described. Mo said he felt great, no p... PHIL GARNER What players should do up here, even if there's no spots available, (is) strut your stuff. This is w... PHIL GARNER We took advantage. When we started getting guys on base we had nice hitting. Of course, the three-ru... PHIL GARNER We covered about 300 homes today. And visited them and checked on whether they had smoke alarms. And... BRUCE GARNER Smoke alarms are critical. They're in your home- constantly sniffing your home for smoke. So while y... BRUCE GARNER What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor ... JAMES GARNER JENNIFER GARNER JENNIFER GARNER I tell you one thing that makes me feel I haven't wasted my life, and that is I've got some ... HELEN GARNER JENNIFER GARNER These guys are tough, I'm telling you. I don't recall any easy games against them. But we'll take it... PHIL GARNER He had us in a hole all night. He found the strike zone and he said, 'hit it,' and we didn't. PHIL GARNER Usually, over the years, I manage to keep the closer pretty well spread out, ... That's not been the... PHIL GARNER I don't like to see that happen because he usually pitches in innings where there's no margin for er... PHIL GARNER He's puffed up pretty good. I think he'll be able to play on Friday. We're fortunate to have the off... PHIL GARNER Andy pitched very well. He's actually pitched with more velocity than he had tonight, and a little b... PHIL GARNER I think the wild card has been exceptionally good for our game, ... Since there are 30 teams in base... PHIL GARNER It might be a little more difficult to get (Quintero) a whole lot of playing time, ... Chavez has ha... PHIL GARNER You could call it that. I hope nobody knows about him for a while. If nobody pays attention, you can... PHIL GARNER You just have to accept the fact that you're probably not going to hit as high as you know you can, PHIL GARNER He's putting the ball in play the other way. When he does that, he hits well. PHIL GARNER If he wants to do that, I think he could. PHIL GARNER He didn't look as dominant as I've seen him in the past. He didn't use a lot of breaking balls or of... PHIL GARNER We're going to have to take a personal inventory as a team, PHIL GARNER That was a great at-bat. You never know if that has anything to do with the next guy, but when a guy... PHIL GARNER I think it's going to be difficult because (Clemens) will probably win the rest of the games this ye... PHIL GARNER There's several great points from our standpoint in that game. It was Backe's first time back, and h... PHIL GARNER He's still very good, ... He's still better than good. But in comparison to last year, that's what I... PHIL GARNER He's missing with his fastball, and he's relying more on his slider, PHIL GARNER It's going to be hard not to vote for Carpenter. If Roger keeps going like he's going and Carpenter ... PHIL GARNER Whole lot of Dontrelle Willis. A little more than I care to see. PHIL GARNER What worries me is that we've had three games that are pretty much stinkers right here lately, PHIL GARNER Their pitching is much improved. I think the pitching is why they are where they are. Turnbow's been... PHIL GARNER We didn't take them for granted, we just didn't show up offensively today. Some days we're going to ... PHIL GARNER It´s a wasted opportunity, no question, ... We didn´t take (the Brewers) for granted, we just didn... PHIL GARNER We've had trouble scoring runs this season, period, ... I don't think guys are trying too hard when ... PHIL GARNER What worries me is that we've had three games that are stinkers. We didn't look good against Milwauk... PHIL GARNER JENNIFER GARNER Even though we didn't get the one big goal that we wanted, there are no losers here. We are all winn... PHIL GARNER After a lengthy investigation, the violators were identified and charges were filed. It's a great da... DONALD GARNER Every one of the deer killed illegally in this incomprehensible spree is a lost opportunity for law-... DONALD GARNER I wouldn't want (tax breaks) to last for more than five to 10 years. DONALD GARNER It makes wildlife management pretty difficult. DON GARNER There's no concept of fair chase to that at all. It's simply a matter of blinding an animal with lig... DON GARNER It just seemed like a kill for thrill. They just wanted to watch deer fall. DON GARNER JENNIFER GARNER That's the biggest difference in their team this year. They don't look like they're going to strike ... PHIL GARNER With guys like him that are so in tune with their swings, they know something's off, and it can be s... PHIL GARNER
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