Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.

I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.

Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.

I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.

Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.

I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.

I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.

I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better.

I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.

I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.

I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.

I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.

My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

Among the reasons for this was the fact that the U.S.A. is one mass market. It is only when you have a mass market that large-scale manufacturing which involves very substantial expenditures can be justified.

Barbara Cook

All of these deep, deep emotional things, good and bad, so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

And all your future lies beneath your hat.

David Gest

And I don't feel in any way responsible.

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

Richard Jewell

It's a bomb. I've already called law enforcement. Let's get out of here.

It's about the pleasure of being in the mountains, traveling efficiently over the terrain, having that sense of dynamic motion which you don't get when you're on foot.

I tried for several months last year to put together a band for live performance, but could never get everyone together on a consistent basis.

It was a serendipitous arrangement, and I now have enough income that I am not in danger of homelessness if the next record doesn't make money.