Hanging Quotes

[Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to go to Stanford, instead of Harvard or M.I.T. as his father had hoped.] He appeared at my classroom door a few days before Christmas and told me I had helped him get through the last year of high school, ... At one time he had a dream of going into a dark alleyway with his father and only one of them would come out. He'd be the one, of course, but out there in Stanford, he began to think about his father and what it was like coming from Korea, working day and night selling fruit and vegetables when he knew barely enough English to get through the day, hanging on, desperate for his children to get the education he never had in Korea, that you couldn't even dream of in Korea. - Frank McCourt

[And the team has grown closer.] People are crossing over from different cliques and hanging out and talking to each other... A lot of wives have become friends that might not have been introduced before. It's forcing people to communicate with each other outside of practice when they might not otherwise have done it. Hey, San Antonio is only so big, and nobody has cars, and there's only so far you can walk. As active as we are, we're also lazy. So you're bound to run into somebody. - Jamar Nesbit

[After changing virtually] everything but the wiring, ... The last two things we changed were the coil and the clutch switch. - Terry Adams

[Accusing Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush of hypocrisy, Bradley said both men have said they support changing the soft money system.] However... both reportedly have directed their top fund-raisers to begin raising soft money to the general election. - Bill Bradley

[8.] Do you realize... that if your ball is hanging on the lip of the hole, you only have 10 seconds to putt it in [16-2]? Sometimes, you can even see it rolling forward, but you have to putt it in 10 seconds, or it's one shot [penalty]. So they're telling you to hit a ball that's moving, which is also illegal. - Tom Lehman

...They're hanging on using their own capital, and eventually, when that capital goes, they're going to be closing their doors. - Ron Bowden

...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings. - Mary Catherine Bateson

... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

*to Kyon* I'm getting bored and just fed up watching something that doesn't seem to be changing at all. That's why...I'm going to kill you and see how Miss Suzumiya reacts. - Asakura Ryouko

(Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle) is trying to keep this case hanging around long enough to affect the November elections. - Dick DeGuerin