"I won all the blue ribbons for canning at the state fair."

-- Loretta Lynn

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“I am happy that I ran the half-marathon, but to me, just running and saying that I finished a race isn't enough for me. I want to run the race as best as I can. Working out for pants size isn't enough. I need a goal or a race to get back on the treadmill every day.”
“They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.”
“I would have to say that first preseason game. Just to put the pads on as an NFL player for the first time. It's a humbling experience because you realize that you are here and now you have an opportunity to go to work and continue to better yourself as a player. It's what you work for as an athlete and you know once you get there the real work begins.”

Source : Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com. June 9, 2014.
“Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.”
“Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers.”
“Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.”

Source : Elvis Costello (2015). “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink Deluxe”, p.34, Penguin
“I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.”
“I could live in a sari; I was born to wear a sari.”

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