(81 quotes found)
“O if we but knew what we do when we delve or hew -- hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender to touch, her being so slender, that like this sleek and seeing ball but a prick will make no eye at all, where we, even where we mean to mend her we end her, when we hew or delve: after-comers cannot guess the beauty been.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
“I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.”
E. M. Forster
“I've still got the boat, but if I'm in Nashville, I'm usually racking up hotel bills. We'll have 20 to 21-day runs on the road, and I'll just be in town for a day or two, ... But that's what it's about for me. I'm playing music because I love it. The guys on the road with me, they love the music.”
Dierks Bentley
“What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?”
William Law
“And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.”
Arthur Bryant
“It was very nerve-racking watching all the way down to the last bracket. It's great that this has happened. We want to be the target. I know we can handle it.”
Brandie Hoskins
“It was all very nerve-racking.”
Bill Telepan
“It was so nerve-racking. But we have worked too hard in the season to just give it up then and we ... weren't going to let it happen.”
Bailey Hansen
“The game was in Middletown's hands. But we took it [back] from them. It was very nerve-racking, but we were not going home in the quarterfinals.”
Brittany Bell
“It was nerve-racking. I wanted to get it over with.”
Brianna Williams
