#struck

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't. We got outside of the exit of the harbor and we started dropping depth charges. ↗

— Barney Ross

#day #depth #dropping #exit #get

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#blows #bullets #cell #each #experts

Whether it has been supporting Corby's new free school, or fighting for the truth on the Cube overspend and land development deals, or striving to protect the East Northamptonshire countryside, in my work as the local MP I have always been struck, as I said in my maiden speech, by the pride people have in our area. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#area #been #countryside #cube #deals

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere. ↗

— George Meredith

#country #deeper #fights #freedom #man

I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization. ↗

— Randy Moss

#england #i #i am #kind #new

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program. ↗

— Danica Patrick

#across #came #car #conversation #cup

It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet. ↗

— James Payn

#been #body #considered #either #far

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#cells #die #forgotten #how #i

I am struck by how casually we as a nation react to the carnage in Iraq. ↗

— Charles Rangel

#carnage #casually #how #i #i am

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#baroque #called #civilization #most #music