Quotes About Incident

It has been said that sharing my silver medal with that incident on the victory dais detracted from my performance. On the contrary. I have to confess, I was rather proud to be part of it.

How did he break the chair? Does he have a foul temper? Did he throw it?" "He broke it by sitting on it," Lillian said with a scowl. "Cousin Eustace is rather l-large boned," Evie admitted.

I've been a little cranky since that house fell on my sister.

She had a bit of a dustup with another student, set fire to the kid's books in the school cafeteria.

You told everyone when I locked myself out last week. I fielded calls on that one all day long." "Yes, well, that's because you were wearing only your towel, which you dropped when you climbed in the window, mooning Mr. Kletzy across the street. Word is he hadn't seen a naked woman in fifty years. He's now requesting that next time you lose your towel at high noon because the light is better.

Molly once burned my egg. My boiled egg. I don't know how.

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault

ensure that Aidan has a learning experience from this incident, his mom and dad must remember one thing: to keep their mouths shut. Save the words for happy times.

I did it with two big ole girls over in Munising once but I didn't write home about it. One of them fell down in the motel shower and we had a deuce of a time getting her out until I turned on the cold water to sober her up.

Sheriff Don Ward talked to the two miners in Shoshone and

I'll phone the police

È successo qualcosa di insolito? -Definisca 'insolito'. -Mi scusi? -Questo è un istituto psichiatrico, agente Daniels. Per maniaci criminali. Non c'è molto si 'solito' nella nostra routine.

We have lunch in the vomitorium. It used to be called the cafetorium until some kid threw up in there last year. It was gross.

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

And that's when it fell off in my hand

Campingfahrt means not, as you might imagine, an unfortunate incident with Libby in a tent…. It means "camping trip." I think I have a natural talent for languages.

My experience is that most people are in denial about the true risks associated with their preferred eating style. As much as they resist altering their unhealthy diet, they often quickly change their minds once they have their first serious health incident, such as a heart attack or cancer diagnosis. At that point, they curse their former choices and wish they had made better ones. Think about that for a minute: How would the future you want you to eat?

The same thing that's happened

He spilled my diet soda!

When a bridge collapses, we analyze the incident to find the causes of the collapse and reformulate the design rules to ensure that form of accident will never happen again. When we discover that electronic equipment is malfunctioning because it is responding to unavoidable electrical noise, we redesign the circuits to be more tolerant of the noise. But when an accident is thought to be caused by people, we blame them and then continue to do things just as we have always done.

It's a blip, not a catastrophe.

Talvolta, nel caso di un incidente, quando l'evento è troppo improvviso e strano per essere compreso, il surreale prende il sopravvento. Le azioni procedono al rallentatore, come in un sogno, fotogramma per fotogramma; il movimento di una mano, una frase, durano un'eternità.

President Andrew Jackson had rather a foul mouth and owned a parrot. You can probably see where this is going... one shouldn't laugh, but his parrot of course picked up a number of his rather vulgar words, and once had to be ejected after repeating a number of them at a funeral.

This was an incident no one ever told my brother, an incident that everyone else in my family has forgotten, except me. One day during his illness, when my mother and I were standing over him, looking at him—he was asleep and so didn't know we were doing so—I reminded my mother of the ants almost devouring him and she looked at me, her eyes narrowing in suspicion, and she said, "What a memory you have!"—perhaps the thing she most dislikes about me.