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below childlike grass imagine leaves perhaps pretend share sorts unlike
Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies. Mohsin Hamid
below earnings goal improvement increase operations per pleased results share though year
We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time. J. Hoover
below league level maybe players
We started out at a level below my expectations. But now it is there. Some players have come into the league who have made it better. It's a high-Class A league, maybe even better than that.
below brick days directly filming four looking minutes realised seen spent viewpoint
We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us.
below brothers cents contrast number obviously saw stark
When you take out the 15 cents and the 20 cents, you can get a number which actually was below consensus. And that's obviously in stark contrast to what we saw from Lehman Brothers yesterday.
below concentration level normal sentences strange
When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you. John Banville
below farmers forced guaranteed harvest invest lose prices production
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops. Nell Newman
below blood irish living warm
We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.
below danger happening knew living orleans sea
When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.
feet abuse cost
Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers. Charles W. Pickering
feet sin crosses
I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross. Charles Spurgeon
feet clothes shoes
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot. Alan Bennett
feet contemplative-life effort
Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out. Djuna Barnes
feet want thanks
My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through. David Sedaris
feet tree soil
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves. David Mitchell
feet squares laptops
UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. Dave Barry
feet arena believer
Be not the one who debunks but the one who assembles, not the one who lifts the rugs from under the feet of the naive believers but the one who offers arenas in which to gather. Bruno Latour
feet space virginia
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders could transport thousands of slaves at a fraction of the cost than they could transport by boat, and certainly by foot. And that's how Montgomery became such an active slave-trading space. Bryan Stevenson
height influence reader
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader. Caitlin Flanagan
height scared
I'm scared shitless of heights. Mark Cuban
height would-be folly
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey
height firsts poet
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson
height depth literature
You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God. Edwin Louis Cole
height moral scales
We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations. Agnes Repplier
height daring
There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. Carl von Clausewitz
height heaviness
My heaviness comes from the heights. Antonio Porchia
height hurdles planning stage sure trying
(Kajima) is trying to make sure there will be no hurdles at planning and zoning. This is the first stage to see if they can get the height they need for the facility.
maximum percent
It can be a maximum of 25 percent of what you owe.
maximum needed win
For us to win we needed to (capitalize). We needed to have maximum possessions. Sean Taylor
maximum-number numbers people
Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve. Dick Cheney
maximum offending otherwise people reader supply
If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything. Amity Shlaes
maximum pushing troops using
We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility. John Spratt
maximum moment
We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty. Fausto Bertinotti
maximum moral sympathy technical
We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.
maximum men qualified seeking shortage somehow women
If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs. James Sinegal
maximum
This is one of the most destructive hurricanes. We are on maximum alert.
objects ifs
What would you do if money was no object? Alan Watts
objectivity jam traffic
We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought. Chogyam Trungpa
objectivity literature littles
We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
objective standard
For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are. Lisa Gansky
objective opening possible ready
We're going to take it very slowly. Our objective is to see if it's possible for him to be ready Opening Day. Larry Davis
objects overload places provide relaxation technology
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. Thomas P. Campbell
objective opportunity viewpoint
If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist. Todd Rundgren
objection
Most people's objection was that I was in my 40s. There was nothing I could really do about that. James Hunter
objective people
It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine, Carlos Mesa
says took
Well, she took the money. It says a lot about her credibility.
says time totally
I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.' Dustin Moskovitz
says stuff
She says things like 'Mama, my stuff is all wet,'
says somebody winning
Show me that somebody that says winning is not a part of development, I'll show you a loser.
says
We try to get him to go out and he says 'No, I've got a show Tivoed at home. I don't know about this guy.
says
When he says he doesn't know, it's the honest-to-God truth.
says state
If the state says there's a plan, that's an overstatement.
says stadium
I think what it says is that Telstra Stadium is out of sight, out of mind,
says
He has a presence. You knew, right from the get-go, he was the manager, and what he says goes.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind arctic knows
I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing! Alan Green
wind outsiders balloons
I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me. Chris Bauer
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window.
within
I would say it's more within my expectations.
within
We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate. Michael Mann
within
We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,
within
Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.
within work
We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.
within work
We will have to work within the budget.
within
We should be able to energize it within one or two days.
within
Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.
within
It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.