Poured Quotations

On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.

Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about them, I handed out notebooks for my students to journal about their lives. There was some initial resistance. But then the stories poured out of them, full of anger and sadness.

Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.

My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'when!'

It is evident that it is the belief of Christian people in this country and in all other enlightened portions of the world that as a nation, we have passed through a severe ordeal - that severe judgments have been poured out upon us on account of the manner in which a poor, oppressed race was treated in this country.

God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.

My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'

I grew up in the East Village with a lot of old people in my building, and I'm not sure if they lost their sense of smell over the years, but they always seemed to smell like they poured a bottle of perfume on themselves. I never want to become that person.

I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.

It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the Moon, and the first food eaten there, were communion elements.

We appreciate it. We welcome it. We love the people across the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We love you with all of our hearts and we're going to do what we have to do to win football games. We love everybody in the world who has supported this effort and those who sat and watched TV and wanted to support us financially but couldn't.

What makes it different is the fact the fuels burn so readily. They burn -- it's an old clich? -- like gasoline was poured on it.

She poured her heart out. Amber did a great job for us. Nobody wanted our point guard position, but she filled in and did a great job taking it over. She hustles, she wouldn't come out of the game unless you forced her.

She really poured her heart into the kids. She loved teaching art and being able to incorporate the Bible and the word of God into it. As a teacher she took such a special interest into each student. The things she brought out of the kids were unbelievable. I was impressed with the creativity she pulled out of each student.

My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the 'Halo' series has been so much more rewarding than I ever expected. For three years, from the age of 16 to 19, I poured my life, my experiences, and a love for the supernatural that dates back to childhood into these books.

Petrol poured down behind me and into the back. Luckily I had goggles on. It was panic. You dont think about anything, you just want to put the flames out,

I am confident in them, they have poured their heart and soul into this case they take Tracy home with them every night.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others. And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. ""One Ring to rule them all."" One by one, the Free Lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor and on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle Earth. Victory was near. But the power of the Ring could not be undone.

Building a base on the moon is not impossible. The question is, do you want to anger our international partners by reneging on our obligation to finish the space station that they've poured billions of dollars into, or do you want to finish it and risk the funds you'll need for this new era of exploration? You can do one, but you can't do both.

Barry's wife, Linda, had the table set with china, crystal and elegant silverware, but I saw it and told her that just wouldn't work. So I asked if they had any newspaper, and she just poured the crawfish all over that elegant table.

I loved it. I have 24 teammates, so I think I had 24 beers poured on me. It was really cold, but I'll take it anytime. I'm not going to hit home runs very often.

I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in.

For me, this is like my cathedral. But I wasn't using what happened to me as motivation. I just poured my heart and soul into it.

He give her a look that you could of poured on a waffle

He might as well have shot Benjamin with a gun when he poured that water, ... It's way beyond reckless. It's outrageous, your honor.

There is a large taxpayer expense when homeless people are poured out on the streets. Right now, they are in a shelter where we don't have to pay the costs for police, the costs for hospitals or the costs for incarceration.

The rain poured, ... It started Friday afternoon, stopped for a while -- about the time the livestock auction was supposed to start it just poured and it rained pretty much the whole night.

When they started in with the hip-hop music, people poured out onto the street and started raising Cain. Since then, the Knights have voluntarily agreed to ban hip-hop music from the club. For some reason the hip-hop crowd always gives us trouble.

Under modern conditions whole nations could be mobilized at once and their whole life-blood and resources poured out in a torrent.

He was screaming like gas was poured on him.

Our father was a very giving, caring person and a well-respected man in the community. Many folks knew him from the camera shop he owned until his retirement, but he was also an institution in town as a long-standing member of the Bucks County Historical Society. As recent as two years ago, he partnered with someone at the Mercer Museum where they poured over volumes of pictures of people and places he donated to the museum. The collection, which was dedicated to a lifetime of achievement, resulted in his receiving the Henry Chapman Mercer Award. It was quite an honor and justly deserved.

Robin considers that crows are a fiery mixture of intelligence, tenacity and spirit poured into a frail body.

My Mission is to always be creating...to take every opporunity to learn... to inspire others to be everything they can be... to love and be loved...to live life to it's fullest, drinking in every drop that God has poured into this journey for me. To play full on in everything I do, so that when I finally make it home I can walk through the door jump into God's arms and say, "I did it, Daddy! I did it!" - Terry Barnett

I woke up one morning with the knowledge that I had a brain tumor. It wasn't so much that I dreamt I had a brain tumor; it was like someone just poured the knowledge into my head. It wasn't like an image; it was just like knowing. It was so weird, which is why I paid attention.

It has been a complete rebuilding process. And I don't think people really acknowledge - or know enough to acknowledge - what an unbelievable job Bob has done and how much of his heart and soul he's poured into that place. This is one of the great rebuilding jobs over the last couple decades, and it's pretty incredible.

It hasn't worked out. I'm glad I didn't this year, because it just poured all day.

The arrival of the Pope to the birthplace of the first cathedral west of the Mississippi was truly an honor and Americans poured into St. Louis to participate in prayer services, a rally and celebration mass.

Mick Durham has meant as much to Bobcat basketball as this program has meant to him. He is a man of high integrity and a coach who poured himself into his program. He achieved at a high level over a long period of time at the school he loves. I think that is the strongest statement that can be made on Mick's behalf. He has affected a lot of lives in a positive way.

Wild Turkey is my friend. Old friends can meet any time. They're easy together like that. I poured myself a large one and lit a Benny. Brunch.

You like to go into the Derby with a horse that has a chance to win. This horse showed me something ... He really poured it on today.

You know, I live in Michigan, ... I've worked with a lot of guys who make a lot more money than I do and have won awards and all that. I don't brood about it, but it's there, and everybody wishes they were recognized more, appreciated more. So I just kind of took that, poured gasoline on it and lit it. Then I had (Bernard). Then he was there.

Weekly earnings growth has been steadily declining. ... It's not dire yet, but clearly it's not helpful, and it's caused us (Americans) to have negative saving rates. People have poured all of their money from the stock market into housing. ... If the housing (market) busts it will get ugly fast.

Today's report poured some further cold water on the outlook for the Canadian manufacturing sector, not that it needed any cooling off to begin with.

We poured a record amount of money into hiring additional faculty, ... The academic infrastructure has been pushed to the limit.

We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.

When order was finally restored, ... Casey was like a raging wild man. He poured over two strikes, and I singled off the next pitch. Tommy stopped at second.

We did not play at our best in the first half but we played at our best in the second half and poured it to them. I'm just glad we won.

The pharmaceuticals sector has been a bit of a disappointment so far this year, so it's encouraging to see good first-quarter numbers coming through. The money companies have poured into research and development is starting to show.

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.

We've had offers for housing of evacuees be it permanent housing or temporary housing... the community has poured out a lot of offers for housing. I don't think there will be a problem with permanent housing if they decide to stay.

We kind of took that as an insult. It was one thing to not be a part of our program. They wanted to play against us, and that kind of poured salt in the wound.

We had the old deer in headlights look in the first half. Traverse City really poured it on early. We've never seen a team come out that intense.

Both Jarrett and Steven have worked so hard for this. They have poured their heart and soul into our program for the last three-plus seasons and they deserve this opportunity.

Brahman is the oblation. Brahman is the clarified butter. The oblation is poured by Brahman into the fire of Brahman. Brahman shall be realized by the one who considers everything as (a manifestation or) an act of Brahman.

Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

Bob has poured his heart and soul into the newspaper and the community,

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? / Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? / Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.

The Right Hon. was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say 'When!'

These were two hard-working individuals and they poured their heart and soul into this program. They know that change is in the interests of the University of Texas.

The Spirit must and will be poured out on the church, that she may be purified and filled with God - and just in proportion as the Spirit of God works, so will he - when our Lord anoints men with power, so will he.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Our defense was big tonight. With Mitch out we only had three or four guys rotating on defense all night. They really poured their heart and soul into this game tonight.

People are very proud of the first phase, when Houston opened its doors. I've never had a question where there's been 97 percent agreement. That's real, and that's a reflection of a remarkable month and a half when Houston poured its heart out.

Normally when we build, we build all the walls in our warehouse in North Fort Myers, drop the walls on-site to where the slab has been poured and volunteers raise walls on the slab. This is definitely something we've never done before but it's been a great experience.

After 9/11, the home improvement industry soared. People started to focus inward more and as home prices climbed, they poured money from home improvement loans into remodeling.

Somebody poured a bottle of salad dressing all over my mailbox.

During the early hours of this morning, six armed men went into the house of a Democratic Republic of Congo national. They demanded diamonds, ransacked the house and, after finding nothing, poured boiling water over the 47-year-old woman and assaulted her 26-year-old son.

And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.

Back in the late 1990s, venture capitalists got very excited about the Internet. A whole lot of money was poured into some companies that failed rather spectacularly, and a lot of people lost a lot of money.

They have actively poured their money into blue-chip companies here such as Honda, Toyota, Matsushita Electric and Canon.

There is sweet water inside a tender coconut. Who poured the water inside the coconut? Was it the work of any man? No. Only the Divine can do such a thing.

As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or woman verily become one with the Godhead.

It was a romp from the start. We poured it on and poured it on.

For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; / That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.

It's the story of a young woman's journey that involves a great deal of horror and some heroics. It's certainly darker than Serenity, and there are a lot of left turns along the way. It is something I had in mind for a while, and it just poured out of me when I finished my film.

Oh my God, it felt like someone poured a bucket of hot water on me. I realized I was literally 200 miles south of the Mongolian border.

It was a great feeling in the locker room, it was a great start, and then it was bang, bang, bang. It was over. We poured so much into it and then the air went out completely. The deflation was unbelievable.

They demanded diamonds, ransacked the house and, after finding nothing, poured boiling water over the 47-year-old woman and assaulted her 26-year-old son.

They wanted to come in here and send a message that we're in the ACC now and they whooped our butts. They showed no mercy. They really poured it on and we didn't respond.

They were the better team over the six games. They took advantage of us and they poured it on when they saw that they had the advantage.

They landed on poured concrete. They went directly from the roof down to the concrete floor.

Shell has poured billions of dollars into offshore Arctic drilling, but no matter how much it spends, it cannot make the effort anything but a terrifying gamble. And if Shell, the most profitable company on Earth, can't buy its way to safety in Alaska, nobody can.

That mighty Being, who heaped up these craggy rocks, and reared these stupendous mountains, and poured out these streams in all directions, and scattered immortal beings throughout these deserts - He is present, by the influence of his Holy Spirit, and accompanies the sound of the gospel with converting, sanctifying power.

I liked gravy poured on top of a big glob of mashed potatoes, I liked biscuits a lot, and a lot of them. I liked going to the state fair and having a fried Twinkie. They were my choices. They were bad choices.

I followed the EPA and tried to get them to go over where all the gas was poured from the radiator shop,

I, frankly, was thinking of something kind of generic. But they said if we're going to do it, let's do it right. So we poured a huge slab and brought our framers, stucco guys and paint guys.

In recent years the networks have poured money into reality shows and that's what younger viewers are used to. Dramas are more demanding and require more attention by the viewer, but the rewards are greater if you stick with them. It's important for the networks not to have a kneejerk reaction and to keep topping up people's ability to digest drama.

I poured my heart out in that call.

I poured a sidewalk. I walked through it. That wasn't very smart.

I poured all my strength into the Olympics, which was always the chief priority for me and I'm still in a situation where I can't relax.

In those difficult times, we asked that His power might be poured into the hearts of men and women and that hope might be stirred in them. Is not all that happened at that time in Europe and the world, beginning with our own homeland, God's response?

In my heart, these survivors represent the city that San Francisco became. They personally may not have poured the cement and pounded the nails, but they rebuilt the city.

Being for real, it's not about the New Orleans Saints; it's about those people sitting on those cots, trying to find their kids. We love the people around the nation who have poured out their hearts to us. We're going to do what we have to do to win football games. But the game is the game. Afterward, our focus is right back on New Orleans.

I decided today when the smoke poured through the serving window and I had to move away from the grill, that was enough.

Herb hasn't been appreciated the way he should be appreciated. He deserves more than the way he's been treated. He has poured everything he has into the job. I don't think they could find a better coach for their program.