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Quotes About Can

Up with the other one, ordered the burglar. You might be amphibious and shoot with your left. You can count two, can't you? Hurry up, now.
~ O. Henry
He heard the fireman clank shut the door and leave and he poured the coffee and stirred in milk from a can and sipped and blew and read of wildness and violence across the cup's rim. As it was then, is now and ever shall.
~ Cormac McCarthy
When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.
~ Christine Pelosi, 2010
Can I step away from this digital maw? Will my voice still matter if no one can hear it?
~ Heather Havrilesky
absurdity—Actually snowing at this moment!— The folly of not allowing people to be comfortable at home—and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!
~ Jane Austen
Hollywood does draw some very strange characters, and then the power of Hollywood and what they can do with it becomes like a blood sport to them.
~ Alec Baldwin
I can't even use a can opener. I'm mechanically challenged. I ripped off two thumbnails trying to change kids' bicycle chains.
~ Craig Sager
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
~ T. E. Lawrence
It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.
~ Guy Pearce
Criminal cases require strategy, and prosecutors should attempt to prove only what can be proved.
~ Robert Shapiro
You can write the best book you can, and that might still not be enough. Appeal isn't something that most writers can't strive for or identify. It's something even the best agents and editors can't always identify.
~ M. J. Rose
No matter what I say, people are going to have their opinions and there is nothing I can do about that.
~ Mookie Betts
The opponent has the chance to win the match, and I have a chance to win the match. It's open, and I have just to do everything I can there.
~ Simona Halep
January is the garbage can of movies in America, directly after all the Oscar contenders have been out.
~ Michael Caine
Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can." from "The Winding River
~ Unknown
If you don't, the spirits of the newly dead can get in your body through your mouth and then they can possess you.
~ Holly Black
Dexter did not kick the can. And now Dexter is It. Again. You may wonder, how can this be? How can Dexter's night hunt be reduced to this? Always before there has been some frightful twisted predator awaiting the special attention of frightful twisted Dexter—and here I am, stalking an empty Chef Boyardee ravioli can that is guilty of nothing worse than bland sauce.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.
~ Philip K. Dick
Can is not the same as must." "But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
~ Philip Pullman
Can is not the same as must. But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
~ Philip Pullman
maybe nothing that happens on stolen ground can expect a happy ending
~ Zadie Smith
Every shoot's cool and a new experience, so I try to absorb everything and everyone I can.
~ Stella Maxwell
Try always to do what you WISH, and you will often sacrifice what you CAN do.
~ Idries Shah