#strike

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina. ↗

— John Irving

#i #kind #life #maybe #me

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK! ↗

— Steve Irwin

#body #dead #head #his #more

The strike of the miners in Arizona was one of the most remarkable strikes in the history of the American labor movement. Its peaceful character, its successful outcome, were due to that most remarkable character, Governor Hunt. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #character #due #governor #history

Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series. ↗

— Shawn Ryan

#book #closes #entire #feel #feeling

Bill Clinton strikes me as the kind of guy who goes wherever the polls lead him, rather than leading the polls. ↗

— Al Sharpton

#bill clinton #clinton #goes #guy #him

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

#camp #during #especially #father #her

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#became #because #each #eventually #experience

So we knew their intentions were to strike in the United States. We also knew from other sources of dozens of examples of where the notion of using planes as weapons was discussed. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

#discussed #dozens #examples #intentions #knew

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#adam #adam sandler #better #between #brooks

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#dinosaurs #killed #like #million #overdue