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When I give myself over to a good novel, I surrender to the truths fashioned from one writer's heart, mind and soul. I do not waste a nanosecond wondering whether what I'm reading 'really happened.'

The Democrats are driving by the accident, and they're looking out the window wondering what's going on.

We basically heard about it in the fall, and a lot of the guys on the team have been wondering what it's going to be like. Definitely there's a buzz about this.

There are a lot of people wondering what is going to come out of this. No one really knows where it is going.

We were wondering why the ethics committee was being held up for more than a year. Now we may know the reason.

We've been discussing it and we do know that there is stuff going on everywhere but we are wondering why there seems to be so many instances here.

Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much -- and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.

We keep track of the number of hits. Starting three weeks ago, we started to get hundreds of thousands of hits. We've been wondering why, but I guess we know now.

To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?

To me, the golfing and fishing go well together. You see a lot of golfers wondering why they didn't go fishing instead. It's a great mix. It's a unique program he has there.

We want guys here we've got guys here who want to have people looking at them and wondering what our football team is about.

We've got a unique celebrity lineup that will bridge generations and keep people on the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen next.

We've got great team spirit -- we want to keep giving our all to try and win rather than sitting back and wondering what might have been,

We've got guys here that enjoy that, ... They want people looking at them and wondering what this team is all about.

We are also wondering how to patch all the potholes.

When I was a kid in a small private school on Long Island and this event occurred, we were all fascinated. For years, I've been wondering what to do with the material. I think it should be an opera. They're all so operatic and passionate in their personalities.

When I wasn't documented, I remember the panic -- wondering if I could get a job. I felt obliged to help now.

We're going to solidify a lineup. There was a lot of things that went on last weekend. We just wanted to see what guys were made of. We realized that some of the freshmen weren't quite ready yet, and I think in the same aspect, we have some older guys that maybe started wondering where they stand with the team.

We felt like we missed something at New Hampshire in the first race. We should have been a lot better than we were and we left that race wondering why we didn't run better. I felt it was important to go to Milwaukee and test regardless of whether we were in the Chase or not.

When you take a step of faith, obstacles are removed and doors are opened. Do not stand there wondering if you made the right choice, but keep on moving as your destiny lies ahead.

The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.

There are bound to be viewers wondering how she can dish out advice, ... But I think she is very ballsy and will come back. You learn very little from success, but you learn a great deal from failure. If I had a small business and wanted some advice, I would ask Rachel.

We knew we were good, but we kept asking ourselves what the hell is our problem. We were wondering why we can't win this game or that game. Why we can't win close games. The one thing this team does lack is experience on the court.

Did he have no-hit stuff? Yeah, I think so. I was sitting there in the sixth wondering how many pitches to let him go for a no-hitter. He's young and big and strong, and he had only 83 going into the seventh. ... I'd have let him go 130 pitches. I'd like to have had that decision to make.

DH is not for me. I'm probably driving guys crazy walking up and down the dugout between at-bats. The games go by so slow, too. I'm always wondering about my next at-bat.

Don't take it personally. The nation's Guardian readers all just arrived at our incredibly right-on jobs and are wondering if drinking seven fair trade coffees in a row will make us feel better about third world debt. It's hard to get involved in a game between a porcine American and small, dull looking Belgian.

Don't get me wrong, I think you're probably telling the truth, but there might be a lot of people at home wondering how that could be possible with the conditions you're facing and with the insurgent attacks you're facing.

This year it's more an issue of timing, not a shortage. We've heard from some physicians and nursing homes that are wondering and waiting because they ordered from Chiron.

Every minute you spend looking through clutter, wondering where you put this or that, being unable to focus because you're not organized costs you: time you could have spent with family or friends, time you could have been productive around the house, time you could have been making money.

At some point I started wondering what it means to teach for free in an inner-city school - what's in it for me?

I started writing lyrics out of desperation. I was broke and wondering where my next job, my next meal was coming from, although I had had several successful revue songs on Broadway.

I started thinking about knighthood, and wondering why that period has an eternal fascination for us. Greek myth is laid in the Golden Age.

I've been thinking about him, wondering what it would be like if he were playing. I know the situation would be different, and he knows it would be different. But I only want him to come back when he's healthy.

I've been living a nightmare, worrying if she is hurt or ill. There is no one I hold closer to my heart than my sister, and I am deeply worried wondering how she is being treated.

The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing.

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.

We were expecting boilerplate, and this is well off boilerplate, ... We were wondering if they were going to pass or run, but instead they punted.

We were expecting boilerplate, and this is well off boilerplate. We were wondering if they were going to pass or run, but instead they punted.

We were feeling euphoric and light headed. I was wondering what the deal was. Everyone's ears were popping, popping, popping, so we thought that was a little weird. Then the pilot turned around and said we'd have to take the plane down to 4,000 feet. The pilot later said that if we had kept rising we all could have passed out. It could have been a Payne Stewart situation .

We've been looking at the numbers and wondering just how long we can sustain the kind of insured damages we've been getting. If insurance is not affordable, it's really not available.

With so many incidents of identity loss via tape, some are wondering if they should get off tape,

The only choreography I have in my act is where I walk about ten feet, from stage right to stage left. Then I say, "You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

It would be another blow for him, because right now everybody's wondering where his campaign is.

What everyone was wondering was where consumers were getting the money to pay for these things, and I do believe we got part of that answer today.

We've got a good offensive club, and you're sitting here just watching Cobb really perform well against us. And he's done that all year long. We're just wondering if we're going to be able to put any good swings together.

We're supportive of Wal-Mart coming in, we're definitely not against it, but we're wondering what impact it will have on our operations.

We had runners on first and third with one out and one of the best hitters in the SEC at the plate and then all of a sudden we had three outs. I'm still kind of wondering how that happened. But it happens early in the year and you have to move on and fix it.

We are still in the soap-opera phase where everyone is still wondering what is going on. The next 24 to 48 hours, as the companies get out to see if there has been any damage, are really going to determine how significant this is.

We are always wondering what we are going to get. Guys start asking around, and a lot of guys mess around and start little rumors about what we are getting, and set us up for a disappointment.

We did all right (defensively) in certain situations. And we had Manning confused at times. He was looking around, wondering what was going on. We made them punt a few times. So, that's what we have to do again.

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

People feel like their Web sites must be compliant. They're wondering what the enforcement is going to be like and what the penalties will be. People are taking this very seriously.

People are wondering if the United warning is a sign that the sector was over-priced. You have a series of events letting the air out of things in the short term.

People are wondering when it's going to stop, where it's going to stop.

People are wondering whether the numbers are going to reinforce strong economic growth and whether or not it's going to put the pressure on the inflation issue again. Nobody's willing to take a direction.

People around the world are wondering whether it's all right to pursue economic activity (in China),

Of course, you lay awake nights. You do wake up in the middle of the night wondering about it.

Some people feel that there's some racism involved, ... I'm wondering myself.

Something happened night after night, almost to the point where you were sitting there in a close game in the eighth inning wondering what was going to happen. It was good to get it over with. We didn't need the attention. At that point, our locker room had become like a World Series locker room. People we'd never seen before wanted us. National attention is one thing. For the wrong reason isn't good.

The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, ... but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days -- they're sleepless about wondering where their job went. They're sleepless about wondering where their health insurance went or whether they are going to have health insurance. They are sleepless wondering whether their kid is going to be the next to die in Iraq.

Roy Jones is doing a great job. He looks real nice. I'm wondering why he even boxes again, he looks so distinguished.

So you've been wondering about Jackie Robinson, eh?

So to those of you who are wondering what our spending limit will be, my answer is this: We have a lot...on our plate at the moment, enough to keep you occupied,

Now everybody is wondering whether ours will lower as well.

You're probably wondering what the prime minister is sharing with me. We're talking mountain biking.

'A Little Nightmare Music' is the first show we created. It's about all the nightmares that can happen in the span of a concert. When things go wrong - when the lights go out or a cellphone rings - that's when an audience suddenly comes alive, wondering what's going to happen next. Things going wrong often leads to something good.

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all the stuff that has to get done in the course of a day. When the children are asleep in their beds, I can go where I really need to go in my head.

A lot of girls in L.A. just stand in the corner wondering 'Who's gonna talk to me? Who am I gonna diss?'

A lot of the reporters have really been wondering and doubting their editors. It wasn't that they knew the defense of Judy was wrong, but they didn't have a sense of what was being defended. . . . People all over the paper think the Times should have been covering the story harder.

A lot of people were wondering how they (Marshall) got here, just like they were wondering how we got here. Well, I'll tell you they're a darn good basketball team. So are we. I don't think two other teams could have played a better championship game.

This has become so much more important in recent years, ... A lot of parents can't get to the school during business hours and some parents may be at home at 8 o'clock in the evening and may be wondering what's going on. Soon they'll be able to go online around the clock and check it out.

They told me they were going to do it, but I had my doubts. I was wondering if they'd be able to swallow their pride and run out there.

They've been working on that contract for a year. With the events of last month, the government was wondering if they've been doing enough and quickly enough,

Sometimes, we're wondering what we can do to help and unfortunately, these people are going through a difficult time. It's a small part we can play. At least it's something we can do.

San Diego is the county that is kind of the furthest off into this uncharted statistical territory, so everybody's wondering what is going to happen locally. The big question there is will prices decline significantly or will they flatten out.

People don't sit around here wallowing and wondering if we should go the school uniform route because we had some challenges last year.

People are still digesting Friday's data and wondering whether the short-term reaction to sell the dollar was right,

Right now we are in the mode of children missing class and wondering if we even notice.

This time of the year, players are always wondering what could happen or what might happen, and there's always rumors. There's rumors that come out of left field. Some of the rumors are often found to be true, but a lot of them are not.

The only thing we've been wondering is if it could be due to the magnitude of Katrina.

This was a long time coming, but I felt like I could do it. I was nervous all day and I was wondering if I could make it around the whole course, but my caddie kept me focused and I did it.

The whole day was confusing, as we were wondering if we were going to race or not. It was windy but it was windy for everyone,

This baby comes out of you and there's no handbook. They hand you this child and say, 'Don't kill it. Feed it, clothe it and shelter it.' I never knew what that kind of love was. I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me.

This is probably a good deal for Amgen in that folks had been wondering where top-line growth would be coming from in 2007 and this is a good product to have.

This is a big project. All of America is wondering what is going to happen.

A decline in shipments following the holiday quarter is expected of mature markets, and the handheld devices market is no different. After nine consecutive quarters of year-over-year decline, many are wondering how long this trend will continue, and whether the market will see a reverse.

Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that, you look around at your colleagues and wonder how the hell any of them got here.

You should spend no time whatsoever wondering if those funds are good for you, once you're confident your employer has done the proper due diligence.

You start wondering when that first victory is going to come. That victory made them relax and start enjoying the season.

You're frustrated because you know the talent that we have on offense, and it's kind of mind-boggling wondering why we couldn't get it in the end zone that many times down there in the red zone.

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it.

In a post-9/11 world, everybody is looking over their shoulder and wondering if the next guy is the one who is going to take you down.

I laughed at Willie Nelson, wondering why he spends all his life on that tour bus. And I look at myself, and I'm sitting in airplanes half the time.

I've got to be honest, ... I was kind of wondering how it was going to all play out.

I've been wondering whether or not we could pull out a close one, and we did. I hate the fact that we had an early lead and then let them back into the game, but we did what we had to do to win. Special teams hurt us, and special teams helped us right there at the end.

Inflation is rising in more sectors than it is falling. It is doing so across horizons of one month, six months and 12 months. We are left in all this wondering what the Fed is up to and what it is waiting for.

I'm tired and frustrated, wondering what we've done wrong, and or what we might have done differently. We can't help but wonder why in the world we cannot find him. The bottom line is, we just haven't had the luck it takes to go along with everything else.

I knew I hit it good, but I wasn't thinking home run. The whole time I was wondering if it was going to be fair or foul. I kind of watched and at the last minute it straightened out and died in the corner. The guy reached his glove out and caught it, and I knew they were going to call it at least a double.

I knew we had it at the wire. I was wondering why it took so long to put up the finish. Now, at the eighth pole I did not know I had it. But Dale's a great horseman. They're always ready and always have that little bit extra when you need it.