#strand

What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you? ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#book #did #dropped #end #going

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. ↗

— Alex North

#combination #familiarity #hear #i #lack

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#average person #darkened #disco #dozens #drive

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#democratic #democratic party #far #i #i think

Last year, when we were in Mobile, Al., covering Hurricane Ivan, we heard the stories of poor people, many of them black stranded downtown because they had no way out. ↗

— Al Roker

#because #black #covering #downtown #had

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. ↗

— Bob Hawke

#economic #economics #government #i #i think

Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

#before #i #leaves #make #out

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#become #description #fate #i #many

Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ↗

— William Morris

#life #strand #strung

She wasn’t ready for this kind of distraction he caused her. It was bad enough she found him attractive, but having a attractive man in her home was just asking for trouble. ↗

— J.C. Valentine

#stranded #home