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“If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone - perhaps not when unemployment is high, but certainly in normal times. Robust competition is a powerful force helping to ensure that workers are paid what they contribute to their employers' bottom lines.”

Ifs Hard Helping Force Hours Lines Powerful Normal Paid Towns Competition Workers Bottom Stores Offering Unemployment Employers Bottom Line Robust

Author:Christina Romer

“It's incredible when I'm out in these towns. I have people telling me they were waiting for hours just to meet me and get my autograph. I feel so guilty. I always feel like I have to give them more than just Kato Kaelin.”

People Giving Feels Waiting Hours Towns Incredibles Guilty Autographs

Author:Kato

“Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.”

Ifs Men Play Care Humanity Hours Leader Four Streets Strange Ready Optimism Towns Following Pleasant Tunes March Rhyme Banner Fondness Procession

Book:John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose

“Near yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from town's he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place; Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashion'd to the varying hour; Far other aims his heart had learn'd to prize. More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.”

Source: The Miscellaneous Works: Poems. Miscellaneous pieces. Dramas. Criticism relating to poetry and the belles-lettres

“From May until October, the Ottoman Government pursued methodically a plan of extermination far more hellish than the worst possible massacre. Orders for deportation of the entire Armenian population to Mesopotamia were dispatched to every province of Asia Minor. These orders were explicit and detailed. No hamlet was too insignificant to be missed. The news was given by town criers that every Armenian was to be ready to leave at a certain hour for an unknown destination.”

“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”

World Joy Time Growth Hours Animal Succeed Universal Towns Plant Tribes Chimes

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.”

States Games Hours United United States Ten Towns Cents Shells Stranded

Author:W. C. Fields

“Anyone can buy a car or a night on the town. Most of us shell our days like peanuts. One in a thousand can look at the world with amazement. I don't mean gawking at the Chrysler Building. I'm talking about the wing of a dragonfly. The tale of the shoeshine. Walking through an unsullied hour with an unsullied heart”

World Looks Heart Mean Night Hours Talking Car Building Walking Thousand Towns Wings Tales Shells Peanuts Amazement Dragonflies Chrysler Chrysler Building

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“I love Austin, but last time I was in town for twelve hours. I was exhausted, drunk and miserable. But none of that was Austin's fault.”

Lasts Hours Towns Faults Drunk Miserable Twelve Last Time Exhausted Austin

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“Almost all of "Julie" was shot on location in Carmel, which is a lovely resort town a little south of San Francisco. My co-star was Louis Jourdan, whom I liked very much. An amiable man, very gentle, very much interested in the people around him; we had a good rapport and I found talking to him a joy . . . We would take long walks on the beautiful Carmel beach, chatting by the hour.”

People Men Littles Long Beautiful Joy Found Stars Hours Walks Talking Shots Towns South Lovely Beach Gentle Location Resorts San Francisco Amiable Rapport Chatting Long Walks Talking To Him

Author:Doris Day

“The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.”

House Hours Watches Break Audience Streets Crime Towns Neighborhood Seconds

Author:Carrot Top

“My hometown is 30,000 people. It's remote, but it's an oil town, so it's developed. There's definitely a mill mentality: not a lot of people leave. It's a lot of long hours, shift work. Even my Dad, who's a dentist worked hard, because that's what people do up there.”

People Long Hard Hours Dad Towns My Dad Oil Mentality Mills Hometown Dentist Long Hours

Author:Aaron Lines

“There are definitely many adventures on the road with Jessica 6. It sometimes feels like we're in a movie. I was recently kidnapped by 2 taxi drivers in Moscow. They drove me over 2 hours out of town till I started to cry then they drove me 3 more hours finally to my hotel!”

Feels Sometimes Hours Cry Adventure Towns Hotel Drivers Taxi Moscow Kidnapped

Author:Nomi Ruiz

“I work almost completely year-round, since I was 18 or 19. It's nine months a year, and then you're out of town, (there are) crazy hours and all of the things that go with filmmaking, which is a pretty all-consuming business, although I'm very blessed to be a part of it.”

Years Hours Crazy Months Towns Blessed Rounds Nine Filmmaking Consuming Nine Months

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.”

Persons Long Shows Fun Term Hours Interesting Deals Nice Wonderful Consequence Towns Mess Long Term Entertaining Being Me Nice Things 48 Hours Wonderful Person

Author:Guy Branum

“I grew up in Nazareth, Penn., which was an hour and a half from New York, and an hour and a half from Philly. So bands that were touring came through one way or another. We got to see stuff people in other small towns didn't, like Wesley Willis. I couldn't have asked for a better place to grow up and be into music.”

People Way Grows Stuff Hours Half Growing Up New York Grew Band Grew Up Towns One Way Better Place Small Town Touring Nazareth

Author:Daughn Gibson

“Moving is what the deal is. I wish I could spend more time in places, but I find I either want to be in a place for an afternoon or like 10 days or a month. I don't like the two-day thing, so I just wish the drives were shorter so you could wake up, take a walk, and spend three hours in one part of the town. I always thought there should be 28 or 30 hours in a day - you know what I mean?”

Knows Want Should Mean Two Moving Three Wish Hours Walks Deals Months Wake Up Towns More Time Afternoon Two Days

Author:Justin Vernon

“There are these little towns outside of L.A. Once you get an hour and a half, two hours out, you get into these little, tiny towns that are almost like stuck in time.”

Littles Two Hours Half Towns Tiny Stuck Little Towns

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.”

People Knows Two Sometimes Hours Half Gone Generations Towns Seven Borders Mexican Descent Half Hours Antonio San Antonio

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.”

People Feels Said Stills Young Speak Hours Cities Fiction Novel Students Towns Engaged Minorities Wealthy Bus Elites Pakistan Small Town Festivals Often Is Lahore

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.”

Hours Five New York Towns Rhythm Jet Lag Camden Circadian Rhythm Jet Lag

Book:Pattern Recognition

Source: Pattern Recognition

“The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of years, and the tiny grains of hours and minutes—and the clock pulverized them, slid Time silently out in all directions in a fine pollen, carried by cold winds to blanket the town like dust, everywhere. Spores from that clock lodged in your flesh to wrinkle it, to grow bones to monstrous size, to burst feet from shoes like turnips. Oh, how that great machine…dispensed Time in blowing weathers.”

Years Bigs Grows Hours Feet Minutes Century Wind Huge Fine Cold Machines Towns Rounds Shoes Size Bones Flesh Tiny Weather Dust Clock Shakes Grain Blanket Monstrous Wrinkles Pollen Turnips Cold Wind

Author:Ray Bradbury

“The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.”

Firsts Mean Two Home Eye Wanted Together Mother Suffering Father Left Hours Hurt Cities Mistake Feet Walking Towns Shoes Focused His Eyes

Author:Milan Kundera

“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”

Fall Hours Tree Sky Wind Quiet Bird Towns Hot Breaths Clouds Squares Earthquakes Lunchtime Portents

Book:Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

Source: Chris Cleave Ebook Boxed Set: Little Bee, Incendiary, Gold

“Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means that it still matters what Penn did two hundred years ago or what Franklin did a hundred years ago; I never could feel in New York that it mattered what anybody did an hour ago.”

Feels Years Mean Doe Stills Two Matter Hours Alive New York Hundred Years Ago Tradition Towns Franklin

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“You know, I’ve had a really wonderful night tonight. I got to tell Kyrian and Julian that Valerius is in town and spent, oh I don’t know, three, four hours trying to keep them from going after the Roman. Then, just when I could relax and do my job, I find out there are Daimons in the swamp and no Talon to kill them. And why wasn’t Talon here? Because Tarzan was swinging off a balcony to save Jane from Cheetah. Now all I can do is stand here and say, next fiasco, please, right this way. (Acheron)”

Knows Way Trying I Can Jobs Night Three Next Can Do Hours Four Wonderful Please Towns Relax Tonight Jane Swamps Fiasco Balconies Talons Cheetahs Wonderful Night

Book:Night Pleasures/Night Embrace

Source: Night Pleasures/Night Embrace

“You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat hole town has, and a dozen beers. If it's not sitting on this table..." a slender finger pointed furiously at the table in question,"... in one hour, you die" - Faith telling Jacob”

Ifs Care Order Dies Hours Five Minutes Sitting Towns Tables Fingers Don't Care Coffee Holes Beer I Don't Care Dozen Finest Rats Five Minutes Jacob One Hour Slender

Author:Lora Leigh

“After almost exactly three hours, we rolled into a small hole of a town that had one traffic light and a resturant simply marked DINER. There hadn't been any traffic on the road for over an hour, though, which was really the most important thing. We hadn't been followed. Sydney drove us to a building with a sign that read MOTEL. Apparently this town liked to stick to the basics when it came to names. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually just called TOWN.”

Ifs Important Light Three Names Hours Building Towns Important Things Sticks Holes Traffic Basics Sydney Diners Motels Traffic Light Last Sacrifice

Book:Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

“Over the past month, Muslims have fasted, taking no food or water during daylight hours, in order to refocus their minds on faith and redirect their hearts to charity. Muslims worldwide have stretched out a hand of mercy to those in need. Charity tables at which the poor can break their fast line the streets of cities and towns. And gifts of food and clothing and money are distributed to ensure that all share in God's abundance. Muslims often invite members of other families to their evening iftar meals, demonstrating a spirit of tolerance.”

“Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist, and the student emerge from the dust of town into the joyous air of the country, for a few delightful hours among the rocks.”

May Country Science Hours Air Rocks Students Materials Offers Summer Spring Towns Rounds Observation Dust Ease Delightful Hammers Joyous Geology

Author:Archibald Geikie

“So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.”

“The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling "The British are coming! The British are coming!"”

Persons Lasts Three Hours Car Towns British Yelling

Author:Lewis Black

“If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.”

Ifs Thinking Hours Car Fame Towns Abraham Inventing

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

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