“ I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America. ”
- Max Baucus- Copy
- 49
“ The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. ”
- Roberto Benigni- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The one essential, driving aim of the agency's campaign is not to please and sell you, the public, but to sell the advertiser and get his initialed okay. The public is a poor also-ran. ”
- Samm Sinclair Baker- Copy
- 2.8K
“ I was planning to be a baseball player until I ran into something called a curveball. And that set me back. ”
- Ben Chandler- Copy
- 225
“ I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob. ”
- Bo Diddley- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming. ”
- Jennifer Garner- Copy
- 756
“ If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 3.3K
“ We ran up the hills where, as you looked down toward the sea, the flooded rice fields lay shining in the sunlight like a broken mirror. ”
- Colin McPhee- Copy
- 3K
“ An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life. ”
- Terry Pratchett- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away. ”
- Norman Rockwell- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I would especially like to recourt the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time. ”
- John Updike- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Spurts don't count. The final score makes no mention of a splendid start if the finish proves that you were an also ran. ”
- Herbert Kaufman- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I had some eyeglasses. i was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 3.4K
“ If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days. ”
- Robin Williams- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. ”
- Mort Sahl- Copy
- 118
“ I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity. ”
- Sydney Biddle Barrows- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Magic Johnson, former basketball player, may run for mayor of LA in the next election. Remember the good 'ol days when only qualified people ran for office like actors and professional wrestlers. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
- 2K
“ An idea ran back and forward in his head like a blind man, knocking over the solid furniture. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 680
“ Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
- 852
“ The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. ”
- Vince Lombardi- Copy
- 2K
“ There was never a place for her in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother. ”
- Jane Taylor- Copy
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