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  • I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. -- Steven Wright
  • We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. -- Vince Lombardi
  • And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land. -- Edwin Muir
  • If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. -- Robin Williams
  • I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. -- Tim Robbins
  • 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
  • Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to express ecstasy. -- Agnes Martin
  • The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it. -- John Adams
  • I came where the river Ran over stones; My ears knew An early joy. And all the waters Of all the streams Sang in my veins That summer day. -- Theodore Roethke
  • In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am. -- Jon Stewart
  • Ragnor and Catarina both begged him to give the instrument up. Random strangers on the street begged him to give the instrument up. Even cats ran away from him. -- Cassandra Clare
  • People can really change. When they're far away from each other, their hearts will change. It's so cruel that the only thing I can do is wait. - Mouri Ran -- Gosho Aoyama
  • And Thames and all the rivers of the kings Ran into Mississippi and were drowned. They planted England with a stubborn trust But the cleft dust was never English dust. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
  • I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened. -- Wilma Rudolph
  • I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. -- Harriet Tubman
  • I've never lost a game I just ran out of time. -- Michael Jordan
  • The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer. -- Floyd Red Crow Westerman
  • I ran my first marathon in Florida in 1985. I had never run more than nine miles. -- Kim Alexis
  • I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man. -- Kool Moe Dee
  • Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. -- Gloria Swanson
  • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. -- John Galsworthy
  • Mr. President, the buzz saw that your healthcare bill ran into wasn't lobbyists and special interests it was tens of millions of American's who were saying, 'Stop!' -- John Boehner
  • The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle. -- Kylie Minogue
  • A fan once asked if he could have a piece of my hair for voodoo. I said no, so he hugged me and plucked out a couple of hairs and ran off. -- Amy Lee
  • I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. -- Eric Cantor
  • I myself am a Buddhist, not a Christian. But I cannot help but think that if Christ ran a public establishment, it would be open to all, and He would be the last to refuse service to anyone. It is, simply put, the most un-Christian of notions. -- George Takei
  • I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids. -- Bonnie Raitt
  • But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus. -- Scott Jurek
  • I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your own medicine. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. The first car ever made ran on hemp oil. Hemp seeds are also the healthiest food on the planet with the highest protein content out of any plant. -- Joe Rogan
  • I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office. -- John Boehner
  • I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle! -- Woody Allen
  • I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest. -- DeForest Kelley
  • When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. -- Louise Bourgeois
  • If women ran Hollywood, 'The Hollywood Reporter' would have a 'Men in Entertainment' issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something. -- Elizabeth Meriwether
  • I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?' -- Colin Angle
  • I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts. -- Allen Ginsberg
  • I ran away from home. I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States of America, because of that terror of discrimination, that horrible beast which paralyzes one's very soul and body. -- Josephine Baker
  • When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall. -- Robert Dallek
  • My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong. -- A. J. Foyt
  • I was 23 years old, a freshman at university, and there I was, on the first day, sitting in a remedial English class. I was so ashamed I almost got up and left, but somehow I knew inside that if I ran away from this, I would hate myself forever. -- Bill Cosby
  • Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple. -- Walt Mossberg
  • My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well. -- Steve Carell
  • When I played the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year's Eve, I got to bring Wiley, my 85-pound black lab. He's responsible for my favorite New Year's memory of all: At the end of the show, he ran onstage and then out across all the tables in the showroom, sending champagne glasses and gamblers flying. -- Elayne Boosler
  • To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung. -- Annie Jacobsen
  • Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the public swimming pool in Dallas. My light-skinned friend got in, and he laughed at us. It didn't seem like a big deal, because we didn't know any different. So I never ran into anything that actually scarred me. -- Lee Trevino
  • I've got an extra-specific story about Dr. Dre. I saw him when I was 9 years old in Compton - him and Tupac. They were shooting the second 'California Love' video. My pops had seen him and ran back to the house and got me, put me on his neck, and we stood there watching Dre and Pac in a Bentley. -- Kendrick Lamar
  • One of the things that I did before I ran for president is I was a professional speaker. Not a motivational speaker - an inspirational speaker. Motivation comes from within. You have to be inspired. That's what I do. I inspire people, I inspire the public, I inspire my staff. I inspired the organizations I took over to want to succeed. -- Herman Cain
  • Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.' -- Bess Myerson
  • At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. -- J. G. Ballard
  • My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief. -- John Oliver
  • I ran out of strong. -- Ron Hall
  • confession ran in the family. -- Iris Murdoch
  • My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • She just dropped it and ran!! -- Mercedes Lackey
  • I ran for myself, not Finland. -- Paavo Nurmi
  • I ran for Congress, just once. -- Shirley Temple
  • Yesterday, my eyeglass prescription ran out. -- Steven Wright
  • We fell. We got up. We ran. -- John Green
  • I ran like a thing that runs. -- Maureen Johnson
  • My karma just ran over my dogma. -- Barbara Johnson
  • I ran very fast in the wrong direction. -- Lauryn Hill
  • Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement. -- Kim Edwards
  • I ran track, and basically played every sport. -- Leigh Steinberg
  • We ran as if to meet the moon. -- Robert Frost
  • I ran my fastest marathon in the rain. -- Bill Rodgers
  • Never ran away for the sake of scars. -- Andy Biersack
  • We ran like a herd of wild cattle. -- William C. Oates
  • Luck ran out, but smart was for life. -- John Connolly
  • I run every day now. I never ran before. -- Travis Barker
  • A little manic was what their house ran on. -- Rainbow Rowell
  • Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese. -- Emeril Lagasse
  • Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold. -- Horace Walpole
  • Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates. -- Erving Goffman
  • You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered -- Rick Riordan
  • The lads really ran their socks into the ground. -- Alex Ferguson
  • Boom, boom, foom, poom! He just ran right at 'em! -- John Madden
  • When I ran for governor of Minnesota, I only raised $300,000. -- Jesse Ventura
  • In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899. -- Leo Baekeland
  • Once I ran to you, now I run from you. -- Gloria Jones
  • From that day on, I ran from spot to spot. -- Enos Slaughter
  • In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles. -- Dennis Banks
  • The best part of you ran down your mother's legs. -- Jackie Gleason
  • If I ran the Web, you could email dead people. -- Rives
  • Every day FM radio ran out of hours, not music. -- Bob Guccione, Jr.
  • I wonder why why why why why why, she ran away? -- Del Shannon
  • When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out. -- Tammy Baldwin
  • I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure. -- Kristen Wiig
  • I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell. -- Usain Bolt
  • I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stones. -- Ahmed Zaki Yamani
  • Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent. -- LeBron James
  • A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon. -- Joan Van Ark
  • It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club -- Charlaine Harris
  • If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run. -- Dana Carvey
  • My first love was Cinderella, but she ran off with another man. -- Dorothy Parker
  • I don't mind foreigners. God save the queen!" he squeaked and ran. -- Jeaniene Frost
  • If women ran the world, we'd still be searching for the wheel. -- Maddox
  • I ran straight through the boundaries a married couple should live by. -- Tiger Woods
  • I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne. -- Michael Zaslow
  • I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second. -- Kristin Lehman
  • There is no mythical creatures just creatures man ran in to hiding. -- Julia Golding
  • Dastien ran his fingertips along my jawline "Je suis desole, mon amour. -- Aileen Erin
  • Straight between them ran the pathway,Never grew the grass upon it -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Ronald Reagan was older than I was when he ran for president. -- Jesse Jackson
  • I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction. -- Melina Marchetta
  • I thought I could make a difference, so I ran for office. -- Mary Fallin
  • I grew up in rural Arizona. My dad ran a general store. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
  • I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time -- Jimmy Connors
  • I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran. -- Bob Dylan
  • Donald Trump's being authentic to what he ran on and what got elected. -- David Brooks
  • I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. -- Steven Wright
  • Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck. -- Laurie Notaro
  • I have terrible luck. Last week my chauffeur ran off without my wife. -- Henny Youngman
  • I hadn't gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere. -- Richelle Mead
  • Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all -- Michelle Shocked
  • You ran away from an adorable Irishman who wanted to se you naked? -- Christine Warren
  • I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. -- Sydney Biddle Barrows
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