Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was just choked up inside. To me it's a close family. I don't know what happened.

Zab Judah

I was detained by a police officer and proceeded to get choked by Roger Mayweather.

I think it's silly. Losing those seats for teams like the Yankees and Angels, they'll lose revenue. They're going to choke themselves. I think Lew Wolff is a good owner, but I don't think closing the upper deck is going to do it for them.

Mary Roach

When I was 16, I had a job on the cleaning crew at a local hospital. I wore a pink uniform and cleaned bathrooms and buffed the hallway linoleum. Oddly, I don't recall hating the job. I recall getting choked up at the end of the summer when I went to turn in my uniform and say goodbye to the ladies.

Rick Yancey

Hold on tight, Sam." He puts me in a choke hold. "Ahhh," I gasp. "Not that tight.

Alec Baldwin

I'm very patriotic. I'm an arch-patriot. When they play 'The Star Spangled Banner,' I get all choked up. I love my country.

I'm about to get choked up talking about it. It was very emotional. I was very, very proud to be an American.

Tom Daschle

Congress supported the experiment. It was a huge mistake. Deficits skyrocketed. The national debt quadrupled. High interest rates choked American industries. Unemployment soared.

Ellen Hopkins

It [death] chokes you, gags you, but you have to pretend that you're doing just fine, not trembling with this fear because the end is close.

Gayle Forman

You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?

I totally choked it on 17. I should have won it right there.

We failed to make the routine plays in the field. We choked in that situation." ()

Oil prices have risen so dramatically that the view now is that this could choke off U.S. growth and prevent any recovery in the stock market.

Sathya Baba

See God in every one you meet; see God in every thing you handle. Live together, revere each other, let not the seeds of envy and hate grow and choke the clear stream of Love.

It was very emotional after the game. Dean spoke to us and really choked up, because he's (Colbert) put so much into the club and just the way he goes about his footy and just in life, he's a great fella and we wish him all of the best,

Ron Gardenhire

That one kind of choked me up. I thought that was a pretty nice thing by big Buck.

You really have nothing to lose in that situation. I choked up a little bit, especially with two strikes. I wasn't looking for an offspeed pitch, but I knew he had it. He ended up throwing me another fastball that I stayed on and hit it where I was supposed to hit it instead of trying to pull it.

Charles Bukowski

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

At the very least, negotiators need to eliminate the giveaways in the bill, require insurers to pay their fair share, reduce costs for taxpayers and make sure that they don't choke the fast-developing market for terror insurance.

Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.

We think she grabbed a piece of food and choked on it.

Michelle Collins

Up until now all the information is going in one direction to law enforcement. But the financial institutions get a lot of feedback and they honestly have a lot of impact in being able to choke the money flow.

Those are some of the steps taken to make sure the Visa Waiver Program ( search ) is a safe and effective way to letting people get into the United States, because obviously we don't want to choke off travel here altogether.

Tom Waits

You choke my days, I'll choke yours.

Kurt Eichenwald

The myth that people with epilepsy swallow their tongues is very injurious. When I had seizures without my roommates present, I would often wake up with my gums bleeding, my teeth hurting or my jaw aching. Often, well-intentioned people, believing I would choke on my tongue, tried to force open my clenched jaw to put in a hard object.

William Shakespeare

Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted;Suffer them now, and they'll outgrow the garden,And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

Brendan Shanahan

For me, you always feel like you're in it right up until the buzzer goes. But ever since I've been a little kid, I've always gotten choked up when the season ended, other than when you win the championship. It's usually in the dressing room when you realize they won't let you play another period.

Chris Quinn

I found myself getting choked up a little bit. Seeing all the fans, seeing everything I've been through for four years just going through my head.

Patrick Byrne

By February, inventory was half of what it should have been, and that choked off sales in February and March.

Housing has peaked, and from here it's only downhill. It's going to take some of the wind out of the sails of consumer spending, but it won't choke off consumption.

Last night was the worst night of my life, ... This man up here, well, he was trying to choke this little boy. They whipped him down. Then they threw him over the railing.

Steve Price

That will be something new for Eddie, to go and watch a team that actually wins, or at least doesn't choke in grand finals.

Joe Nemechek

Well, in the heat of the battle, I wanted to choke him. I wanted to get out and wrestle right there.