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• Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.” A primal growl signaled Miss Lynn getting over her shock at being thus addressed. She lunged forward; Jack deftly rolled off the bench, jumping up out of her reach. “Goodness, I didn’t expect you to be quite this enthusiastic about my advances. If I don’t play hard to get, how will I ever know whether or not you respect me?

  Kiersten White

  Sweet, Children, Jumping

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• I'm counting to ten in my head." "Is it helping?" "No." "It doesn't help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by the way?" "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Frustration, Weight, Way

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.257, Penguin

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• They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Hands, Perfect

  "The Elephant Vanishes". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.” Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset.” "You...you carried me here?” "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot.” Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

  Richelle Mead

  Hurt, Men, Feet

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• Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

  J.R. Ward

  Men, Cities, Ego

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• What an incredible thing! How much less they had than other human beings. Mentally retarded, deaf, mute - and still eagerly sanding benches.

  Daniel Keyes

  Incredibles, Deaf, Retarded

  Daniel Keyes (2012). “Flowers For Algernon”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• As a player, remember that the bench is not a prison, but an extension of the first group. Concentrate on the quality of your play when you do get into the game. If you play 20 minutes, play the best 20 you can possibly play.

  Stan Albeck

  Leadership, Sports, Player

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• I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Running, Jewish Tradition, Years

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• I'd leave London only for Man
  United, the club of my dreams. For
  Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on
  the bench.

  Adel Taarabt

  Dream, Men, Ferguson

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• Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes.

  Walter Moers

  Food, Gourmet, Ordinary

  Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.38, The Overlook Press

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• Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Children, Garden

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• You're jumping over the bench, jumping back onto the ice and you're working as a unit. Defenders can move up the ice and score goals as well as the forwards. It's a real fast, physical game. It's the fastest game on earth so it's pretty enjoyable to watch.

  Gerad Adams

  Real, Moving, Jumping

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hurt, Kids, Night

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• The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Brain, May

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• I never had much interest in the piano until I realized that every time I played, a girl would appear on the piano bench to my left and another to my right.

  Duke Ellington

  Funny, Music, Girl

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• Players must be able to carry out simple instructions from the bench to the court. If they can't, then they can't play

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Simple, Player

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• There were things that would irritate Casey, but trying too hard or getting mad at sitting on the bench weren't among them.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Mad, Trying

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• Whether I start or come off the bench makes no difference to me. My game has always been go as hard as I can as long as I can

  John Havlicek

  Basketball, Nba, Games

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• I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  School, Play, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.23, Canongate Books

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• Once the Hack-a-Shaq works once, you know I'm going to see it again. The only thing worse for basketball than that defense is the Lack-a-Shaq offense, where I have to go to the bench because of foul trouble. There is no fun in that.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Fun, Defense

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• I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sleep, Water, Tree

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2007). “Nausea”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

  O. Henry

  Writing, Yarn, Stories

  "Treasury of World Masterpieces O.Henry".

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• Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Air, Hands

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.115, Univ of California Press

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• After a play in the field Casey would turn (to the players on the bench) and say 'What did he do wrong?' or 'You're better than that guy.' Either way, he'd keep them from getting stale.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Player, Guy

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