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  • I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

    Rain   Tired   Eight  
    Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.58, Simon and Schuster
  • I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise." "We sort of come with the package," Collin explained. "Think of it as a collective gift from all of us to you: five bona fide annoying and overly intrusive new best friends." "It's the gift that keeps on giving," Wilkins said. Jack grinned. "I'm touched. Really. And since it appears I'm going to be moving in, let me be the first to say that all of you are always welcome at my and Cameron's house. Subject to a minimum of forty-eight hours prior notification.

    Julie James (2010). “Something About You”, p.217, Penguin
  • If a big wave came at the wrong moment, it would sweep me off into forty-eight-degree water, where I might last twenty minutes. Drowning quickly might be better.

    Eight   Water   Twenties  
    Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • While the Soviet Union has imposed its rule on its neighbours and drawn an iron curtain between east and west, we in Great Britain have given freedom and independence to more than forty-eight countries whose populations now number more than a thousand million - a quarter of the world's total.

    Country   Eight   Iron  
  • There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

    Change   Book   Men  
    Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.86, New Directions Publishing
  • The Pawn move is a capital investment. Every one of the forty-eight should, from the beginning, be spent as if it were one of the last forty-eight apprehensive and responsible dollars between yourself and starvation.

    Moving   Eight   Dollars  
  • I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

    Tired   Eight   Views  
    "Steve Earle, Our Woody Guthrie, Takes Our Pulse On Low Highway" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 16, 2013.
  • No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

    Wise   Wisdom   Women  
    H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик
  • The more I think about it, the more there is to be said for the sloth. He sleeps fifteen to eighteen hours a day and is known to have taken forty-eight days to travel four miles. He hangs in the trees after he's dead. But he lives longer than the cheetah.

    Funny   Taken   Sleep  
  • Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.

  • The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

    Notebook, Dec. 1902
  • I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.

    Running   Past   Eight  
    Meg Cabot (2009). “Every Boy's Got One”, p.321, Zondervan
  • Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record.

    "Phelps Tops Another Olympian, but at 77, She Grins". www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2012.
  • He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

    Eight   Pigs   Rabbits  
  • It was really sad Bobby Neuwirth's and my affair. The only true, passionate, and lasting love scene, and I practically ended up in the psychopathic ward. I had really learned about sex from him, making love, loving, giving. It just completely blew my mind it drove me insane. I was like a sex slave to this man. I could make love for forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, forty-eight hours, without getting tired. But the minute he left me alone, I felt so empty and lost that I would start popping pills.

    Sex   Tired   Men  
  • Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And every time you hear the words "parsley", "intractable" or "longitude", you will vomit uncontrollably for forty-eight hours.

    Pain   Eight   News  
  • I'm sixty-five and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be forty-eight.

    Eight   Years   Age  
    Quoted in an interview with Glenna Syse in Time Magazine, August 15, 1960.
  • In timing a film, we used to assume that sneaks move slowly. This was great for animators-thirty-six to forty-eight drawings for a single step-but it was sheer hell for the pace of the picture. So the rapid tiptoe was invented.

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