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I took nothing from my house, ... I've got my purse, and it had some of my important papers, but when I looked inside, it was all wet. It smells like a hurricane smells. I'm just going to throw it away.

Lorraine Brown

My office is a mess. I hate filing, so papers and journals and books just pile up. If Jay can keep order in a cell, I figure he could help me organize my office.

Frankie Bailey

They're headquartered very close to our headquarters, their businesses fit very well with ours - big printing papers business, an important wood and timber business - they've got a nice, nice position in Brazil, as well as a position in Canada.

John Dillon

If I were an immigrant without papers, I wouldn't be hanging around down there. It's a place where border patrol is likely to target.

Cheryl Little

A man so dull he once made the papers for having a one-in-the-bed romp [on Alan Shearer].

Nick Hancock

I buy papers for everybody.

Kathy Warga

It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.

Paul Auster

You'd open a drawer, looking for a pen or Post-it notes, and it would be full of dirty socks. He was a mess. Food here, clothes there, papers everywhere. But behind all that was a totally organized mind.

Karen Patton Seymour

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

H. L. Mencken

The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, other than what we read in the papers.

Dan Devine

Every day, when you walk out the door, you're worried because you don't have papers.

Alfredo Hernandez

[When Hall completed his appeal papers as quickly as he could,] it said a lot, ... Obviously he's proved himself.

Arthur Johnson

We don't do a lot of talking in the papers. Let him talk more. Let's just see how he sounds after the game.

Aaron Rouse

I think the paper's outspoken style brought it this trouble.

Pu Zhiqiang

We have expressed interest in receiving the bidding papers from the Democratic Party. But we have not made any decisions about either convention.

Ceeon Quiett

By the way, to this day no one knows what happened to the two horses that ran from the fight. There's no account in the papers. There's no account of anyone ever bringing the horses back. So who knows? Maybe the horses ran off to Hollywood and told their story.

Allen Barra

The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.

Michael Lewis

My agenda is singular. I am not in this to be in the papers, for any political gain, the UNC is not my agenda, neither is the PNM. The youth and sport in this country are.

Ato Boldon

It's just like a weight has been lifted from our shoulders. It's out there. It's out in the open. It's done. All the papers have been signed. It's a done deal.

Tamilya Davis

If I lose my job, it's worth it. It's worth losing several jobs to get my papers.

Jose Cruz

We've been out beating the pavement, talking with Realtors, organizations and municipalities and looking in the papers.

Ruth Pelham

I looked in the bottle and saw these little round papers and I didn't know what it was. Then I thought, these are little notes.

Keith Downey

When you teach the way we do, you need some time off. The work day is longer than eight hours, and it's not just grading papers that adds to the time.

Jennifer Bowers

Every morning began with Roz getting her mother up, dressed and in a wheelchair, then going off to teach classes, grade papers and write for the newspaper.

W. Hull

We'll even have patent papers ready so students can register their invention, so no one else can copy their idea.

Dina Valentine

We're excited about this upgrade. This is the kind of equipment you'll find at some of the biggest papers in the country, and there's only a handful in the state.

Jimmy Ruff

Olivier in his last years kept all his papers in great big stage hampers in a barn at his country place in Sussex.

Terry Coleman

They had all this hype, 11 defensive starters returning this year, and all their papers said they had the best defensive backs in the land. So now I guess we have the best D-backs in the land.

Jared Nepa

They can't control what is printed in the foreign newspapers like they can in the local papers. So they try to limit the number of people who have access to them.

John Hanna

She's the best defensive player on the team and she doesn't care about points or who gets their name in the papers. It's not about that with any of these girls.

Brian Metcalf

We expect to sign the agreement papers this week, if not early next week.

Ray Espinosa

We will have to watch out for the weekend papers, but I think all eyes will be on the Nasdaq again.

Andre Dreicon

If it weren't for her, we'd be up to here in papers, as much paper as we generate.

Tony Brown

We want to have our legal papers so we don't get left out. God willing, we will work about six hours today.

Oscar Cruz

The Board regards this as extraordinary work by two papers ... in the aftermath of Katrina, which is considered the nation's worst natural disaster.

Sig Gissler

After that we will print the ballot papers and on February 13 the IEC will issues certificates to candidates.

Pansy Tlakula

When we win, I'll probably end up naked. But I'm predicting a win for sure. You might be reading about me in the papers elsewhere tomorrow.

Mark Crawford

We think it conceivable that the journals in some disciplines might suffer. Why would you pay to subscribe to a journal if the papers appear free of charge?

Royal Society

In those days reputation was a big thing. If you could win a game before you went out, win it. That could mean winning it in the papers by saying certain things or by not saying certain things. You got very crafty at the game.

Tommy Smith

It was obvious. You'd have to be blind not to recognize it. I certainly didn't write scientific papers in high school.

Robert Mccord

We have prepared two million ballot papers.

Hamdieh Husseini

For the last half-century ITV and the local papers in our region have stood alongside each other. Now we're in the same market — very much in the same market.

Lindsay Charlton

It has been determined that among the papers there are a number of U.S. government documents containing classified information.

Richard Kolko

I can confirm the divorce papers have been filed. Beyond that we have no comment.

Dennis Dennehy

I'll stay until they give me my papers.

Brian Zimmerman

But in Mexico, he has his papers in order and is accredited as a chiropractor.

Humberto Seimandi

It's just a matter of paperwork. She has to go home to get her papers in order. Her application renewal was expired.

Cathy Gould

I don't feel guilty about it at all. After I've done all my math and science classes and all the English papers I've written, I'm more than happy just to kick back.

Matt Short

It was so fun. Both of my parents are immigrants, and now they have papers. I had to get out and support it.

Freddi Bautista

I'm looking forward to going there. A lot of people say it really helps you out for the Academy. I've been going back and forth with (Navy wrestling coach Bruce) Burnett; so I'm turning in papers.

Justin Bowser

If somebody wanted to take one of our papers and make a stencil out of it, we don't care. We're in the business of making homes beautiful, and I think it's great.

Steve Bauer

Because of his medical background it wasn't like he could just sign the papers and go right in. But after 911 he was a little angry, so he went back and fought the battle to get in.

Deborah Forbis

They flashed their badges and said they needed access to the papers.

Mark Feldstein

They came to my office in person and brought me the papers. All I had to do was sign.

Chauvet

I'm feeling pretty good at the moment. This is big. They had the papers to move him. I understand they had travel documents. They could have moved him today.

David Leopold

It was the consensus of the council to appoint and it was printed in the papers. If Jack wanted an election, he should have spoke up.

Jim Moore

Some seeds look a little better on papers than others, but on the mat is where it will be determined.

Shawn Guest

Don't forget to take a deep breath and get your papers in order.

Maggie Doedtman

Well, all I know is what I read in the papers.

Will Rogers

I'm concerned with my social as well, but I don't have my social floating around papers on campus, either. The more papers you have without your social, the safer you are.

Kelly Rodrigue

We should be very cautious not to mislead the public that these two papers demonstrate that we no longer need to do research on human embryos or human embryonic stem cell lines.

American Society

If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.

Malcolm S. Forbes

We are currently working on the policy papers for the establishment of a special infrastructure fund management board, as well as a revolving fund to facilitate land acquisition, and hope that these will be completed in June.

Suyono Dikun

Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.

Dwight L. Moody

It's like letting students grade their own papers.

Tom Ricks

Shred papers, do filing and accumulate data.

Kathy Baker

You have to focus on what you have to do, and obviously there are rumors swirling all over the place. We see the papers every now and then, too. You never know how things are going to end up.

Andy Mccollum

I could have a forest of papers they've left for me. It's a lot of work over nothing.

Brian Bahn

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A case for Red River's importance to our military could have never been made had it not been for all of those employees that will never be named in the papers or seen on TV.

Blanche Lincoln

He shouldn't get a medal and he shouldn't get a promotion; he should get his walking papers, ... I think it is pretty clear that he should not have been hired in the first place.

Mark Udall

I've been hyped up — by the papers, by everybody. I've read all of it, and it's great, but I'm not the guy the papers make me out to be until I prove myself. And that's what I'm going to do Saturday.

Hugh Charles

It's our belief that presidential papers belong to all the American people.

David Ogden

Everyone should have a fireproof box, for one thing, where you can keep valuable papers and photos of your belongings.

Ann East

The papers said I was a political newcomer, but I've been coming to Palm Beach for 20 years. I'm a member a lot of clubs. I know a lot of people.

Susan Markin

Search personal files and search extraneous items that wouldn't be part of final work papers and get rid of them.

David Duncan

When a group of reporters and editors showed up at the New Orleans Convention Center with a bundle of those first papers, people grabbed for them as if they were food.

Jim Amoss

We have a large selection of European and handmade papers.

Helen Edell

He disappeared into the cold one night, and she took out commitment papers, because she knew about his mental illness.

Karen Styles

PEOPLE only do reality shows to get in the papers.

Jodie Marsh

It is our increasingly common experience that we see research papers that manipulate results in favor of new products -- both drugs and devices.

Richard Horton

We like Congress to know that Lafayette-West Lafayette is a vital community and a contributing community. We have concerns to express and needs to set forth, and they've been articulated well in locally prepared papers. Only by communicating regularly can we expect to be heard.

Dana Smith

. . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately.

Gilbert Burnet

When I saw it (the damage) on TV and in the papers, I couldn't believe it, ... I found Terre's brother, Jack Lane's, e-mail to see what he had heard from them. Jack lives in Madison, Miss., about three hours from Randy and Terre, and he was able to give them my e-mail address.

Dennis Richards

It's clear the overall demand for paper, like white office paper, is declining. Electronic communications has really hurt that. But there's demand for paper board. There's a demand for tissue and certain specialty papers. There's always going to be a need for paper.

Patrick Schillinger

I hate the bye. It gives the kids extra time to read the papers. I like to jump right into the action.

Steve Brooks

I need the papers to work. I have a big family; they depend on me in Guatemala.

Mario Rodriguez

That did a lot. Those papers did a lot to help them.

Chris Horne

This is (a) 30 years ago marriage, so nobody keeps all these papers, we never need it.

Pappu Singh

I'm sure it's a chapter in the paper's history they're glad to have behind them.

John Morton

Papers do slim down, but they don't want to look like bad value for money.

Peter Cole

It's very disconcerting if they are going to sell those papers to companies or individuals or who knows what in cases where the quality may not be assured.

Jim Naughton

Driving in it was kind of a drag because all the lights were out getting here, but other than that, it's beautiful. My girls will go home and play with our dog and I'll go home and grade papers. I'll make good use of the time.

Diane Brown

We were stuffing papers and during the conversation with another woman, Sacha said she was making a decision on whether or not to allow Gabe to see Caleb.

Sarah Johnson

I want to just warn everyone. Be careful, especially when they say no papers. You can't be sure.

Ann Marie Ferrarese

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Carrie Davis

I really haven't heard a lot about it. From what I heard, they want to send everybody back even if they have papers, and that's not right.

Stephanie Ortiz

As somebody said, 'You must have been living in a cave.' Well, I guess she was in a cave, but even if she had been out in the broad daylight, there were no sign up, no warning in the papers to stay out of where she went.

Rick Fried

I thought that a good deal of his coverage was dictated by fear of losing access. And I think that a lot of sportswriters, especially at community papers, are concerned about that - and it's a legitimate concern, and a legitimate problem.

Steve Klein

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

Tom Segev

Don't ever talk to the papers again.

Chris Ellis

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.

H. L. Mencken

It's easy. The only pain is the phone call and going into the office and signing the papers. It's a time cost. It's a very easy way to save money.

Tom Kane

This was one of the first 'wow' papers. Almost immediately, people started calling up asking if they could get copies of this new operating system.

Peter Salus

Our idea of a date was him coming to Denver for me to type his papers.

Kathy Thomas

James has had to put in a lot of long hours. In addition to those long hours, he had done some training of staff. He is, in effect, doing what some papers are doing with two individuals.

Bob Winter

Most of them were quite good. We have more than 325 people registered, and about one-half of them will be presenting papers.

Mark Bernhard

So the papers say Lewis Caine was contracted to do something, then others were contracted to do something, then these people were contracted to do something. My message is stay away from me. I'm bad luck for you people. Stay away, don't come near me, please.

Mario Condello

They inadvertently kicked up a bee's nest. They may not be here legally, but people resent being called criminals. So now you've even got people with papers marching for people who don't.

Doug Rivlin

Names sell newspapers, there's no doubt about it. If you know that on a certain day, a certain columnist is holding forth on a certain topic, that can sell a few papers.

Andrew Gowers

We don't get a lot of pub. We're not in the media, we're not in the papers, so people figure we're just sneaking by, getting lucky and winning games.

Akin Ayodele

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry/ And pay our rent and not swear in the street/ And set a good example for the children./ We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

Jenny Joseph

Papers should never stay on a flat surface. Deal with them immediately and keep that desk surface clear.

Jamie Novak

I get into plenty of trouble. It just doesn't seem to get picked up by the papers.

Jamie Cullum

Depending on how this turns out, I have papers on a pro scout combine in Chicago in May. I don't have to have the paperwork turned in until the middle of April so I might try that.

Ralph Gillespie

I have no first hand experience with these lawyers, but according to Ray's papers, the RIAA has hired two sets of lawyers, one to be good cop and one to be bad.

Jason Schultz

The issue had been ridiculed in the local papers and I thought, wait a minute - this is a serious issue.

Sen. Margarita Prentice

I am not going to try this case on motion papers. We have things our defense will be pegged on that will come out before the jury.

Joseph Tacopina

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Peter Adams

They were excited when there were articles in the Detroit papers and national magazines (Entertainment Weekly, People), ... They also were good with the juggling act of which days I'd be out on tour (and not in class).

Nancy Reisman

There's not as much other stuff going on. You're not worried about finals or class or papers.

Andy Schneider

Sir Beatle is inviting 300 people. They are all sworn to secrecy, lest this get in the papers.

Cindy Adams

Many foreigners are deprived of their liberty, some with legal residence papers, some claiming asylum, who say they have been arrested arbitrarily and are not able to contest the validity of their detention.

Leila Zerrougui

When we found her she had been locked up in jail for months, pregnant and without any papers. No authority even bothered to ask her age or identity.

Nikitas Kanakis

I had a chat with the manager to get a clear picture about stories in the papers [about being dropped].

Rio Ferdinand

There were definitely some teenagers who told me they'd been asked to rewrite papers.

Amanda Lenhart

That shows what the papers know. Oak Forest was rated higher than we were. That shows we're underrated.

Erik Hansen

The papers and documents regarding the World Cup have just been sent to Cricket Australia. We have not set any deadlines (regarding the host country) but we know that the Australian board would soon let us know of their decision.

Ehsan Mani

I think sooner or later they are going to have to at least give the kids papers.

Eduardo Gamarra

Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

Etty Hillesum

I never spoke to him after he left Mount Olive, though I did go to a couple of his concerts. And, like everybody else, I read about him in the papers and magazines. There were plenty of stories.

Ernest Clark

I wasn't his preceptor, but his preceptor passed along his papers because they were excellent so I knew about Jeremy even then.

Eric Gregory