I was pulling in $80 a week after taxes working in a frozen yogurt store.
The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.
My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
I cannot wear low-waisted pants - I'm constantly pulling them up.
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver.
Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.
We cultivate our feelings the way we cultivate a garden: we can't entirely prevent weeds from coming up, but we can take care to remove them before they do much harm.
The trees like lungs filling with air. My sister, the mean one, pulling my hair.
Everything has to be pulling weight in a short story for it to be really of the first order.
I see myself as more of a student, that I love to get down into the weeds of different problems and try to go through that. I don't mind messaging, but I'm going to default back to the research side of things.
Remodeling is like pulling a loose thread on a cheap sweater - the job keeps unraveling.
Actually, I do have a knack of pulling things off with a straight face, guess it runs in my family.
The unattended garden will soon be overrun with weeds; the heart that fails to cultivate truth and root out error will shortly be a theological wilderness.
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?
We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.
The things I'm making for Vero are very pure. They're from my point of view, and I'm not pulling any punches.
The great thing about 'Weeds' is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.
I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn't escape left or right because of the will of the driver.
People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things.
Anything that does not belong where it is, is an "open loop" pulling on your attention.
It's the wrong time for us to be pulling the rug out from under American exporters.
You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.
Usually in stories there are big problems in the beginning or couples are pulling away, there's a lot of bitterness.
A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous.
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value.
I think Israel suffered a certain trauma from a unilateral step of pulling out of Gaza.
For youth no less becomes
The light and careless livery that it wears,
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds
Importing health and graveness.
A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
The man who votes for the saloon is pulling on the same rope with the devil, whether he knows it or not.
I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.
Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.
There's a new power of pull. Pulling resources from the network JUST when you need them.
All I see are ankles and wrists--and FYI, you're pulling a Mileyfrickin'-Cyrus with that belly flash. Not attractive.
Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.
I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.
Managers must have the discipline not to keep pulling up the flowers to see if their roots are healthy.
Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing!
Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.
I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'
I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.
Our success already exists on a spiritual level; it's a matter of pulling it into the physical world.
Long live the weeds that overwhelm
My narrow vegetable realm!
The bitter rock, the barren soil
That force the son of man to toil;
All things unholy, marred by curse,
The ugly of the universe.
I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.
The dugout in the weeds or leaves beneath a backyard willow, the rivulet of a seasonal creek, even the ditch between the front yard and the road-all of these places are entire universes to a young child.
We're always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.
What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
I like the team effort of everyone pulling together to make one good project.
It's been such a special feeling pulling on that Scotland jersey since I was 16 years old.
When you are pulling people out of the water and off of rooftops, there are no Republicans and no Democrats.
When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.
I don't know, I don't enjoy the business bit of it at all. Anything that's not the acting. It's all sort of like pulling teeth.
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps.
I like to do the whole gamut of emotions on stage - big crying, shouting, hair-pulling.
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