#ditch

Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#confusion

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#bed #could #ditch #dull #get

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#bastards #beat #ditch #fight #had

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#another man #cannot #ditch #down #him

What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#again #bail #collectively #country #decide

The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#children #could #ditch #i #just

When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#apple #boxes #ditch #else #everybody

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#african #came #definitely #ditch #east

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#could #desert #ditch #full #grass

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#course #ditch #down #london #street