Ran Quotes - Page 31

• Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Doors, Numbers, Musical

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• I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Men, Church

  "History of the Church", 6:408, May 26, 1844.

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• My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

  Robert Klein

  Son, Class, Clown

  "Interview with Robert Klein, Barbara Kline, Linda Ellerbee, Richard Haass, Larry King's Children". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• How did I know you ran a 4:30 mile in high school? That's easy. Everyone ran a 4:30 mile in high school.

  Frank Shorter

  School, Easy, Miles

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• I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just ran ahead. I thought, 'It's a very cruel world, I'm not prepared for this'. And I decided to get my revenge on society.

  Steven Morrissey

  Revenge, Thinking, World

  "Stop me if you've heard this one before". "NME" Magazine, February 20, 1988.

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• Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

  Zhang Ziyi

  School, Sleep, Police

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• I ran track, and basically played every sport.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Track

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• I want to thank all my teammates who scored so many runs and Joe DiMaggio, who ran down so many of my mistakes.

  Lefty Gomez

  Running, Mistake, Teammate

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• In 19 years Stockton never once lost a suicide drill in practice. Well, there was one day. He was sick. But he still ran it

  Jerry Sloan

  Basketball, Suicide, Years

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• We ran like a herd of wild cattle.

  William C. Oates

  War, Herds, Cattle

  Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books

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• I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, 'End of Summer.’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Summer, Writing, Thinking

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• Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves. Such was my elation that I ran inside, put on our ancient cracked record of Aretha Franklin singing Respect and danced all by myself for half an hour in our living room, without inhibition, almost crying with jubilation – not just about the wood, but because I could live competently some of the time, and because that day I liked myself.

  Helen Garner

  Block, Two, Perfect

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• The truck was really fast, we just couldn't get a long enough green flag run there toward the end to get a good run on Todd and Skinner. But we were fast. Randy Goss, David Dollar and everyone on the No. 47 team and at Morgan Dollar gave me an awesome truck to drive tonight. We ran out of time to get back up there and race them for win.

  Kevin Harvick

  Running, Team, Winning

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• Steve Smith, thats what happened to us. He just kept making plays. We had a plan. We never really doubled him. We ran a lot of Cover 2, and obviously that didnt work out too good for us.

  Brian Urlacher

  Play, Work Out, Plans

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• After watching films of Jim Brown, I noticed that he never ran out of bounds. He always ran North and South and that's what I turned my style into. I was a North and South runner.

  Earl Campbell

  Style, Film, North And South

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• Will Rogers…used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
  yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
  a newspaper and pretend I’m an intellectual making fun of the yokels
  running the government.

  Mort Sahl

  Running, Fun, Government

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• I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back.

  Ben Chandler

  Baseball, Player, Planning

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• Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and I saw a little boy running after him, all the faculty children in the playing field ran after the boy, and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Running, Morning, Children

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• I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.

  Gavin Friday

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.

  Thomas R. Marshall

  Brother, Sea, Two

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• I thought I'd never get to see that. Florence Griffith Joyner -- every time she ran, I ran.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Florence

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• As Far As People Who Ran The Show, It Was The Highest Levels of NATO, the U.S., MI6, CIA And The Pentagon

  Sibel Edmonds

  People, Levels, Pentagon

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• The sun came out,
  And the snowman cried.
  His tears ran down
  on every side.
  His tears ran down
  Till the spot was cleared.
  He cried so hard
  That he disappeared.

  Margaret Hillert

  Tears, Sun, Sides

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• Imagine if you borrowed your parents' car without permission and ran it into a tree, how much better you'd feel if you were incorporated.

  Peter Lynch

  Car, Tree, Parent

  Peter Lynch, John Rothchild (2012). “Learn to Earn: A Beginner's Guide to the Basics of Investing and”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran.

  Herbert Kaufman

  Achievement, Finals, Splendid

  Herbert Kaufman (1910). “The Winning Fight”

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