I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'
The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
My brother and I are always trying to figure out a way to work again together.
The truth is that any figure of Africans imported into the Americas which is narrowly based on the surviving records is bound to be low, because there were so many people at the time who had a vested interest in smuggling slaves (and withholding data...
A grey-suited figure with badly-scuffed shoes was squatted over a woman’s body, obscuring her face and upper torso. A loose, white dress; torn, now mostly red. A pattern of rose petals, drenched in blood. One of her sandals was missing, scarlet str...
I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when...
What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain. That cumbersome computer could hold so many contradictory opinions on so many different subjects all at once, and switch...
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ...
The Albion was a spacious pub, built in the days when a public house with any pretensions to gentility had to have fourteen foot ceilings, brass taps and a polished wooden bar you skate down. ... Bert, in his reflective moments, considered that if he...
I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes ...
Sharon Marsh: Well good morning, Stan. Stan Marsh: Hi mom, can I have eight dollars to see a movie? Sharon Marsh: A movie? But I thought you were going ice-skating. Stan Marsh: But this is gonna be the best movie ever! It's a foreign film from Canada...
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
I figured it is always better to be unpopular by your own choice.
I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.
I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.
I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.
If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!
If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.
A high heel elongates the leg and inevitably flatters every figure.
Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out.
