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(Ellis is) left-handed and lighting fast and reminds me of a young Leslie Fakes. The pair will be exciting to watch get to balls you just don't expect them to get to because they're both willing to lay out for it.

Even if he has a pair of aces there, I still have nine outs twice (two chances to catch one of the nine remaining hearts) to beat him. The king on the turn kills me.

The timely hits came our way in this game. To come up with a pair of two-out rallies against a pitcher like Roth shows our guys were not going to quit in this one.

I spend a lot on shoes, but my favourite shoes I've had for 16 years: a pair of black Michel Perry ankle boots with gold lining.

I used to be an over-packer! It took me a while to be smart about what I brought with me. I used to tour with a huge bag full of clothes and another one full of shoes because I wanted to have choices. And I ended up wearing the same pair of shoes all the time!

Things just changed. I liked it. I even went to a store and bought a pair of orange cords.

The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear.

I've never laced up a pair of ice skates in my life. But I didn't fall as much as I thought I would.

I've never owned a pair and really wanted them.

It was about 30 minutes after the fire -- I was still running around, seeing if I could pull stuff away from the house, and then my neighbor walked up and handed me a pair of shoes. We still had about two-and-a-half inches of snow on the ground.

The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, ... There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time.

Tell me about the last pair of shoes you bought.

Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

The one thing I love about my signature performance shoe is that it's great on the court, but it also looks good with a pair of jeans.

After 15 years of marriage, nothing says "Thanks for all the blowjobs" like a pair of mittens for Christmas.

The most outrageous thing that I could imagine ever doing is putting on a pair of jeans and going to the shopping mall for my lunch.

Somebody shimmies up underneath there, takes a pair of bolt cutters, cuts the cable, tire falls to the ground, they slide it off and they're off with it.

(Demi) is a woman who has kids, who has a career and still looks amazing first thing in the morning. No wonder she has such a gorgeous man by her side. She looks just as sexy in a pair of jeans and a sweater as she does in an evening dress that is my idea of a woman.

Despite my love affair with skyscraper heels, luckily for my feet I rarely wear them - preferring, instead, the comfort and child-handling practicalities of a pair of trainers.

Despite giving up a last-second goal, I was pleased with the Lasers' third-period play. It's easy to get tight after giving up a pair of quick goals. The boys stuck with the game plan and increased their intensity throughout the game.

Anyway, right around that time I had a problem with a wisdom tooth and I had to go to the dentist to have the thing pulled out, and it was while I was sitting in the chair in the dentist's office, the dentist had picked up this big pair of pliers and was just about to yank out my tooth when the telephone rang.

And then they left us; we heard them (mocking) us when they left, yelling back to us, 'Help us! Help us' as they drove away. I was so devastated that we were just left there by those guys. They were a real pair of bastards.

As a pair of luxury communities, we have been attractive to people who have been more stable in their employment. Other than job transfers, most of our tenants have no real reason to move.

A wonderful Combination :: A wooden stick and a pair of HUGS, can turn a raw Clay child in to COFFEE MUGS

As long as you come in with a nice pair of shoes, pants and a collared shirt, you are good to go.

That pair is in very elite company. I think we've seen more gifted inside-outside tandems, but you'd have to search long and hard to find a more polished pair.

Zhao is the real winner. I admire the pair no matter the result.

You're going to be judged whether you're brought in for a pair of turf shoes or for a draft pick to perform and win games.

This is a shoeless town. I don't think I saw one pair of shoes all day. It's all flip flops down here.

This is a pair of programs where the public is the main winner. The genome has been compared to a textbook, and what we're talking about today is an opportunity to learn how to read that textbook in a more precise way.

This is the basis of sexual reproduction-the ability of chromosomes to pair up and divide.

This game boiled down to us beating ourselves. They scored a pair of unearned runs and we left way to many base runners stranded. We had our chances and couldn't get the clutch hitting we needed.

This avoids the scenario of a 17cm pair of scissors ending up sewn into somebody's abdomen,

They try to pair amateurs with past champions, ... I had a decent record as an amateur, and they paired me with a guy who had a decent record as a pro.

They still seem satisfied that I'm looking at them. I would like another pair of eyes looking at them.

Always buy a good pair of shoes and a good bed as if you aren't in one you are in the other

Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.

They had only two field goals (a pair of three-pointers out of East's zone defense from Pat Cummings) in the fourth quarter. They had 21 free throws. That's what beat us. That's where we got beat. Our team knows it.

They did well this weekend. I think they'll be a strong pair this summer.

They are a special, special pair of kids. I'll probably never coach one guy like them and right now I have two. Not to mention a bunch of tough, tough big guys down low.

They are the most valuable pair in the United States.

This is what I think is modern. It's like wearing a couture jacket with a pair of jeans.

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

As visual metaphors go, it was a lavishly gilded lily of an image, a hanging curveball across the plate, a George Tenet-style slam-dunk: A weary President Bush, trying to escape a news conference in Beijing on Sunday, strides away from the microphone to a pair of locked doors, which he pulls and tugs in vain. No exit, the image screamed. No way out. Of course, George Bush will inevitably get out of the mess he has made -- he leaves office in three years and two months, not that anyone's counting. But the rest of us will be left with his handiwork: crushing national debt, rising economic inequality, a poisoned political atmosphere and, oh, yes, the war in Iraq. We're the ones trapped in the dark with no exit sign in sight.

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

It is unusual to pair freshman together. They have been very steady throughout the entire season.

It's a fad thing, a novelty -- it's like a pair of trainers, one minute they're in and the next minute they're out.

It might add an edge, certainly, when the pair next meet in the middle of the field,

It's not like evening wear, ... It's just kind of 'easy wear.' It's more like take one incredibly stunning thing and put it with a pair of jeans. I just think personally that's what I would do.

For me at age 11, I had a pair of binoculars and looked up to the moon, and the moon wasn't just bigger, it was better. There were mountains and valleys and craters and shadows. And it came alive.

For 10 years, this program has transformed the workplace by bringing deep meaning to casual Fridays and unifying millions of people through two simple acts: wearing denim and making a donation. Lee National Denim Day is about finding a cure for breast cancer - it's about education and hope and the power of a pair of jeans. We're thrilled to have two spokesmen leading the charge with passion.

It?s taken a long time but I think 10 years from now, there will be a breeding pair associated with every dam on the Connecticut River.

It's kind of like slipping into your favorite pair of blue jeans.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometimes you just can't bear another gear or pair of wings or vampire teeth. You go on a fast, and sometimes you come back, and sometimes you don't.

Stone County has a good team and we are fortunate to get a pair of wins against them. They are going to create some problems for teams in this division.

I've known Rick for a long time, and he wanted a pair of outside eyes to look at the show.

Oh, they're stealing 20 pair of jeans or they're stealing television sets. Who cares? They're not going to go too far with it. Maybe those people are so poor, some of the people who do that they're so poor they've never touched anything in their lives. Let them touch those things for once.

They could stop my shot wearing a bathing suit and holding a pair of pliers.

Once he is up on his legs and everything, they will pair him up with a roommate.

A civilian like myself, with a lawn chair, and a pair of binoculars and a cell phone can do the job on the border.

After the second-last pair went, I thought maybe I have a shot. It was hard watching, though, at the end.

Skip a year of buying skis and really get the right pair of boots that fit snugly. Boots have a much bigger impact on how well you ski.

The last decade has been professionally exhilarating for me and I am so proud of the many things that the team at The League has accomplished, ... It is also a good time for the League, which is nearly at the end of a comprehensive strategic planning project that will identify new visions and directions for the organization. It deserves a fresh pair of legs to run the next lap of the race, taking this industry to new heights. I am committed to helping The League make a smooth transition during this important phase in its development.

I'm going to have to go buy a pair of black leather pants so I can storm up and down the sideline as well as Evelyn did while she was here. She got into the game as good as anyone I've ever seen and it showed through her winning.

I like a good pair of jeans, but I also like putting on a nice tux. I'd rather go around in a good pair of jeans that you don't wash every day, because they get more and more comfortable.

I love heels. I remember the first time I saw a pair of heels my mum said: 'You're not wearing those. They're too high!'

I loved the fall collection because it's really luxury for everyday. There are so many different ways of pairing things. You wear rich opulent jackets with a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. It's very versatile if you break the pieces down. You wear an embroidered velvet skirt with a simple sweater and flat boots and you can go walk to dog.

In money, and in life, you are very often your own worst enemy. You promise yourself you're going to diet, then eat not one or two French fries but a whole plate. You decide to really commit to saving for retirement, only to wind up with a new pair of shoes in your closet.

injecting dressed-up luxury into hip-hop style and thereby influencing a new generation of guys to consider more than just a pair of baggy jeans a reflection of their youthful vitality.

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

I'm presuming he will be a safe pair of hands, and they can use him to rebuild the brand and deal with the technical issues on the investigation in America.

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.

I'm walkin' to New Orleans, I'm going to need two pair of shoes, When I get through walkin' to you, When I get back to New Orleans.

I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

I'll bet I have 250 pairs. I can't throw any away because as a kid we got one pair a year. Now I order 20 pairs at a time.

I like the old custom of godparents. Neither of my parents were good carriers or teachers for me, and at age 15, I had the instinctive sense to go out and get myself a pair of godparents.

I only wash my jeans every eight months. I've got a pair by Nudie, and you're not supposed to wash them for eight months at a time to preserve the colour. They're really dark denim. Instead of washing, I just hang them out from time to time. It sounds a bit weird, but they're great jeans. Either those or Diesel is what you'll usually find me in.

I only ever had one pair of Spandex trousers!

I once drove a pair of horses from New York to Vicksburg, and to this day I can almost map out that country as I saw it then, with its hills and valleys, villages and rivers. Yes, I naturally attribute something of my success in railroad building to the interest I take in such things.

If you have a shorter torso, pair a great fitting long T-shirt with jeans to elongate the upper body or if your torso is long, wear a cropped blazer to give it a chic and sophisticated edge.

I'll get him drunk at high altitude. Or put a pair of skis on him.

In traditional Asian arts, the word and the picture always sit next to each other. I have an aunt, a Chinese brush painter, who told me that when you do a Chinese brush painting, you have to pair the image up with some poetry.

I just love pretty things, whether it is art, a song or a pair of shoes.

I realized that potato chips were no longer a choice for me, I just didn't want them. I stepped back and realized that was a little victory. That day, I went out and bought a pair of shoes to celebrate!

Clearly they have gone back to their heritage. It displays the strength of this season, which is the denim business. Much is made of a denim glut, but the fact is ... khaki was king. After three years of it, who needs another pair of tan pants?

Citigroup was disappointing and financials are the worst performing group today, ... You pair that with weakness in technology and energy -- the two leaders for the market over the last eight weeks -- and you have sort of a ho-hum day.

Can he play football? Give him a pair of boots!

Hip-hop influences everything and everybody. It's not just music. It's...a culture. Guys like the clean look now ever since Jay-Z said, 'and I don't wear jerseys no mo I'm 30 plus, give me a fresh pair of jeans and a button up'. Before that, Jay-Z had everyone wearing jerseys. Jerseys were the thing. But now it's different.

If I can get a 10-year-old a pair of Air Jordans, his allegiance is to me.

I came here in a pair of flip-flops and shorts, and my son's track coach lent me a pair of boots and a boat,

I'd go in for milk and bread and walk out with a pair of shoes.

I'd pair Lee with Tait. They could be sensational.

I basically lost everything. By the time we knew we had to get out, there was no time. I brought my laptop, my cell phone, a change of clothes and a pair of shoes and some of my boots.

I don't want to have my fate tied to an old, raggedy T-shirt or a pair of underwear.

I check and he bets $3,000, which is a normal-size bet, about the size of the pot. He's telling me, 'I have a hand; get out.' If the 8 hadn't hit, I'd have just folded. But I have top two pair and I'm thinking I have the best hand.

The key for them is the marketing of a new and totally different identity from Wal-Mart or Target or anybody else, ... They have to create their own distinctive identity. The kind that will make you and me wake up in the morning and say, 'I need a new pair of pajamas -- I think I'll go to Kmart.'

The trick is, when you try a good pair of jeans on, you may not think they're that great, but you wear them two months, and they become your favorite jeans. They're tricky. You gotta let them live.