I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ and Chewbacca. I don’t know if I was a fan of puppets or those, like, specific characters.
I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric – and it was not very nice.
My dad saw himself as part of a historic struggle for human liberation: he met my mum canvassing for the Labour party in a snowstorm in Tooting, he helped lead strikes, and recruited miners to socialism.
I was stronger than Robinson Cano is, but he consistently strikes the baseball with substantially more force than I did.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there’s a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.
Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls.
The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as ‘fiction’ and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called ‘nonfiction’ strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
What strikes me is that there’s a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
There’s so many gifts from the faith to appreciate and it strikes people differently, but the one-ness of the Church wherever you are, Raleigh, San Diego, Alabama. Every place we were was home because the Catholic Church is the same everywhere.
I’ve got good jiu-jitsu skills, good wrestling, good ground and pound, good power on my feet, good strikes.
Inspiration strikes at very funny times.
If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad.
Don’t fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don’t go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don’t flow.
It would be far less interesting, after ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ to have an hour-long movie in between ‘Empire’ and ‘Return of the Jedi,’ where Luke is training. It’s so much cooler to cut from end of ‘Empire’ to beginning of ‘Return,’ where he’s become the Jedi.
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
We’ve gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be – to deploy a system that’ll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.
It strikes me as weird that a 25 year old man would even find a 16 year old attractive.
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know – it’s everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.
By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.
The Trump administration launched the cruise missile strikes in Syria, an act of war, without a U.N. resolution or Congressional authorization.
A bullet can kill the enemy, but a bullet can also produce an enemy, depending on whom that bullet strikes.
In Yemen, the United States conducted more drone strikes in 2016 than any year except 2012, the peak of the campaign in the country, according to data collected by New America.
When trouble strikes, which it always does – bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover – when trouble strikes, those board members who don’t understand or are not committed are not helpful.
Maybe… there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for unlawfully detaining 120 people. Maybe they just got carried away with last year’s idea of pre-emptive strikes and thought, ‘Let’s not wait for an actual crime to occur. Let’s get the innocent.
Watching ‘Dark Crystal’ now, having made Muppet films, it really strikes me just how ambitious that film is in terms of the constructs, the builds, the puppeteering.
Hitting is business. With two strikes you really protect that plate.
The draconian spirit that seeks to enhance penalties and to lower the age at which juveniles will be tries as adults, is part of the ‘whole cloth’ of three strikes. Our failure to address the depair of our inner-city youth is only delayed by our over-confidence in a stance that is ‘tougher than thou.’
Michael Bisping, we had a five round battle. I beat him for five rounds and tripled the amount of strikes landed. I landed more take-downs in that fight than had been landed on him in his entire career.
When I write for ‘n+1,’ I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I’m not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.
It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an ‘intelligence interest’ in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.
Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman’s insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
You’re born with two strikes against you, so don’t take a third one on your own.
Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.
It strikes me as pretty interesting and cool how girls support each other in this business. I’ve never felt so much support in my life than from my fellow female comedians. I attribute much of my success to some of them.
Reading is becoming a kind of specialist activity, and that strikes terror into the heart of people who love reading.
Whatever strikes I need to throw, I need to let them go.
At this point, I’m just grinding through it, trying to establish strikes in the zone with my pitches, using some information the opposition gives me, and kind of moving forward in that regard.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
My favorite film is ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’ My writing, and my personal taste in movies and books, tends toward works with a darker tone, and ‘Empire’ fits that the best of all the movies.
If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn’t you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It’s kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn’t one write about that?
Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system – which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes – to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention.
The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn’t all that high.
The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring – when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to Uganda only increases the pain there.
