Announced Quotes

#1. The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.'
'What agreement?'
'The Berlin Agreement, - Author: Andrei Cherny

#2. We've decided to get a pet," her dad announced ... "Like, I don't know, a brother or a sister? - Author: Derek Landy

#3. Think I'll just buff up the silver,' he announced, loud enough for her to hear and do something about him if she wanted. - Author: John Le Carre

#4. The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction. - Author: Barton Gellman

#5. The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch. - Author: Loretta Lynn

#6. When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy. - Author: Chelsea Clinton

#7. Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. - Author: George Carlin

#8. [...] here "white" could be the way a person talked; "black," the music a person listened to. In Ghana you could only be what you were, what your skin announced to the world. - Author: Yaa Gyasi

#9. You're going out with Garrett Graham." "Mmm-hmmm." "I call shenanigans." Of course she does. A date with Garrett Graham? I might as well have announced I'm marrying Chris Hemsworth. - Author: Elle Kennedy

#10. Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged. - Author: Charles Dickens

#11. Americans had to work around the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment, and more broadly around their announced traditions of equality; and in consequence their law was a law of covert devices and legal subterfuges. American law, as Krieger wrote, was a law of Umwege, devious legal pathways. - Author: James Q. Whitman

#12. Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch. - Author: E.B. White

#13. Hell-o-oh," she called with the silly lilt with which she and Tom announced arrivals. "Hello," Tom called from the living room, without the lilt. - Author: Jonathan Franzen

#14. Yeah. She's Law. Street name. Got it 'cause she's The Law. Gonna bring down all the dealers. She goes out huntin' 'em down at night, just like Batman," Sniff announced. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#15. Thinking Reports enable the prisoners to wash their brains, and become new!" he announced cheerfully. "Washing the brain is very important to your reform, and improving your real situation. - Author: Dominic Stevenson

#16. I am not doing this in front of everyone," Simon announced.
"It's not spin the bottle, Simon," said Clary. "It's just food. Not that you're food, Alec," she added when he glared. She held her hands up. "Never mind. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#17. Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination. - Author: Yu Hua

#18. I am Vaurien Scapegrace," the woman announced, "and I'm here to save the world. - Author: Derek Landy

#19. Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in the kitchen! - Author: Georgette Heyer

#20. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign announced that it raised over $1.5 million in the 24 hours after he announced his bid. Meanwhile, a 12-year-old on Kickstarter just raised $7 million in five minutes after announcing his idea for juice box water guns. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#21. They met at one of the Bouchercon mystery conferences. Love among the midlist. "It's raining cats and dogs!" Ted announced, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing they write. - Author: Josh Lanyon

#22. Texas senator and tea party favorite Ted Cruz announced he's running for president. He pledged to lead America boldly forward into the 1950s. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#23. The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why - with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him. - Author: Jay Leno

#24. It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. - Author: Anthony Burgess

#25. With tears running down her face, Cecily had reminded him of the moment at her wedding to Gabriel when he had delivered a beautiful speech praising the groom, at the end of which he had announced, Dear God, I thought she was marrying Gideon. I take it all back. - Author: Cassandra Clare

#26. I'm the handsome Butterboy," Jack announced. "I'm the queen's soul mate. I just don't know it yet because I'm emotionally immature. Sorry Connor. - Author: Chris Colfer

#27. Megalodons," Prometheus announced, pulling the Rukma higher and higher, little fountains of water spilling from the leaks in its sides.
"They were at least thirty feet long!" Scathach said.
"I know," replied the Elder. "They must have been babies. - Author: Michael Scott

#28. Even if I knew that Separation would probably win, when they announced the film, I was thinking to myself "Oh! I want this! I want this!" And so, when we didn't win, I got depressed for about 20 minutes, and then I snapped out of it and enjoyed the rest of the evening. - Author: Philippe Falardeau

#29. The Taliban has a huge leadership problem at a critical political moment, another caliph has announced himself to the world, and the Taliban has been silent. And that is getting noticed by militants across South Asia. - Author: Graeme Smith

#30. Being that I am of a high intellect, I find cursing distasteful and ill mannered. If that were not the case, however, I would compose a creative, innovative ballad of cursing and recite it at this moment," Elle announced, - Author: K.M. Shea

#31. Dash is for sure straight!" Boomer announced. "He has a super-pretty ex-girlfriend named Sofia, who I think he still has a thing for, and also, in seventh grade, there was a game of spin the bottle and it was my turn and I spun and it landed at Dash, but he wouldn't let me kiss him. - Author: David Levithan

#32. [Judy Price] Osgood was among about half a dozen [Hillary] Clinton friends who I sat down with more than a year ago before she announced her candidacy. - Author: Tamara Keith

#33. In July 2011, U.S. Soccer announced that they'd fired Bob Bradley and hired Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach. Jurgen had once been a world-class German striker; now he was regarded as a successful, if controversial, coach. - Author: Tim Howard

#34. I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights. - Author: George Will

#35. Republican Ted Cruz announced that he will run for president in 2016. So finally, Carnival is no longer the most dangerous cruise in America. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#36. Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with him. In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference. - Author: Ambrose Bierce

#37. THE LITTLE MAN HURRIED into the Fountain and ordered a very large whisky. "Because," he announced to the pub in general, "I deserve it. - Author: Neil Gaiman

#38. LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#39. I hate paperwork," announced Andy, looking up from his desk. "How is it that we have a form for 'you got a gingerbread house dropped on your head'? How do we have a job where that's something you'd need a form for?" "There's - Author: Seanan McGuire

#40. America's space age was officially announced on April 9, 1959. - Author: Lily Koppel

#41. When I announced my party, Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) on 25 April 1996, I had lost all fear of dying. - Author: Imran Khan

#42. In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked. - Author: Jose Antonio Vargas

#43. He is always Mr. Calm, Cool, and Collected. The only time he was remotely this excitable was when they announced they were making the Lord of the Rings movie. - Author: Alice Clayton

#44. I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo book I'm doing is a female-led story, and I'm doing another series with John Romita which is a female-led story as well. - Author: Mark Millar

#45. Shirleen announced when she arrived at our group. "Shee-it. It's like someone smacked you all with the beautiful stick. Ordinary people need not apply. God damn!" "I - Author: Kristen Ashley

#46. A Searcher, a Wolf Son and a Warrior," she announced. I suppressed a laugh. I almost expected her to say "walked into a bar. - Author: H.D. Gordon

#47. Some Democrats say the estimated $60 billion dollar cost of a war with Iraq could be better spent at home. When he heard that, President Bush agreed and announced plans to bomb Ohio. - Author: Jay Leno

#48. I'm going to kill David Lapinski!" America announced, shaking snow out of her hair as she approached.
"Direct hit!" Shepley laughed. America shot him a warning glare and his laugh turned into a nervous chuckle. "I mean ... what an asshole. - Author: Jamie McGuire

#49. We need to boil water. We need clean towels," Ava announced, following too. "She ain't birthin' no baby! She's got a gunshot wound!" Indy shouted. "I know that!" Ava shouted back. "But we need a sterile environment. - Author: Kristen Ashley

#50. The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two year suspension for a lawyer caught having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. Haha! Jokes on you, dummies ... I'm not really a lawyer. - Author: Tina Fey

#51. It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that His Resurrection was announced. - Author: Fulton J. Sheen

#52. Cornell University Press announced plans for a festschrift. - Author: David Foster Wallace

#53. Mitt Romney announced he will fight former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield in a charity boxing match. You can tell that Romney is serious about it. Today, his butler gave him a piggyback ride up the steps of the Philadelphia art museum. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#54. If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations - Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

#55. President Bush announced he has a five-point strategy for getting out of Iraq. Points six through 10 will be handled by the Kerry administration. - Author: David Letterman

#56. I love this medieval stuff," Archie announced to whatever assembly was there, "don't you?" And with that, he slapped her happily on the rump - to the accompaniment of more horrified gasps - and continued on his way. - Author: Lynn Kurland

#57. It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was. - Author: Stephen Leacock

#58. There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud. - Author: Edward Kennedy

#59. My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced. - Author: John Searles

#60. My first hip-hop performance was at Carnegie Hall with Wyclef, ... I got a little feature and he announced me as the 'hip-hop violinist.' The next night I played at the Apollo. - Author: Miri Ben-Ari

#61. I have been ranting and raving about this ever since the idea of the Cloud Ark was announced. So far all I get in return, from the powers that be, are vague answers and hand-wavy happy talk. - Author: Neal Stephenson

#62. I turned and faced the Olympians.
"We need a shroud," I announced, my voice cracking. "A shroud for the son of Hermes. - Author: Rick Riordan

#63. Time magazine announced its person of the year. It's health workers who treat Ebola. That's a person of the year. Time magazine told the health workers, 'No need to pick up your award, we'll mail it to you.' - Author: Conan O'Brien

#64. Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch just announced that he is stepping down after three years. When asked if he's looking for a new job, he was like, 'Nah, just browsing.' - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#65. Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#66. Today Russia announced that it will join America's fight with the terror group ISIS. Then Putin said, But I did not say which side. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#67. I have faith, as I did when I announced my stem-cell decision in 2001, that science and ethics can coexist. - Author: George W. Bush

#68. God, you'd think that great corners in life should come with a warning sign at the side of the proverbial road, a little yellow number that announced which direction you were going to go in, and maybe offered a "reduce speed" kind of advice. - Author: J.R. Ward

#69. Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology. - Author: Kevin Rollins

#70. Something is not right,' Weavyr announced. She crouched lower over one spot in the Wyrd and tugged, redirecting the threads. In the moments that followed, throughout the world, hearts were broken, brilliant careers were launched and dreams were dashed. A volleyball serve also went awry. - Author: Maurissa Guibord

#71. My dad's one true quest in life was for the Platonic ideal of peanut butter. And I remember one day he announced, with a look of utter transfiguration on his face, that he had found paradise on Earth in a jar with a yellow cap. And it was called Red Wing. - Author: Christopher Buckley

#72. For seven and a half million years, Deep Thought computed and calculated, and in the end announced that the answer was in fact 42- and so another, even bigger, computer had to be built to find out what the actual question was. - Author: Douglas Adams

#73. I laughed. "Oh, I like this little guy. If we can't let him go, can I keep him?"
"Uh, no"
"I shall name him Herbert," I announced, ignoring Dez. "Do you like the name, little puke-wedgie? - Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout

#74. Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all the people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard. I haven't seen that many sad, blank faces in one place since the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. - Author: Jimmy Fallon

#75. Gabe thinks I look sexy,' she announced when Jace stopped in front of them. 'And he totally said you'd fuck me in these shoes.' She stopped and frowned, her thoughts suddenly muddled. 'Or maybe it was Mia who said you'd fuck me. Either way, I wanna be fucked in these shoes. - Author: Maya Banks

#76. Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end. - Author: Graeme Le Saux

#77. Decided by Locus readers. The winners will be announced - Author: Anonymous

#78. You may weep more if you wish it, he announced, feeling exceedingly generous. - Author: Lynn Kurland

#79. A gentleman would have announced himself!" I told him, pressing against the side of the tub.
"And a scoundrel would have joined you."
Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!) - Author: Karen Chance

#80. Once when I was working for the Daily News, I was summoned back to work from vacation because Donald Trump announced he was getting a divorce. - Author: Gail Collins

#81. You really are a know-it-all pain in the ass," I announced snarkily, brushing by him rudely. I stopped quickly at Ellie and Adam to say, "I'm happy for you." And then I hurried by them down the hall to the bathroom to get away from Braden and his perceptive, growly, inflexible ass. - Author: Samantha Young

#82. If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do? - Author: Ajay Devgan

#83. Charlie wrinkled her nose. "I think I'm going to vom," she announced as the passenger door opened and a light gust of evening breeze filled the space around them. - Author: Beth Ashworth

#84. The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%. - Author: Anne M. Mulcahy

#85. At the house, the gathering broke up quickly. Sarai announced that she had a headache and needed to lie down. Without her to hold them together, the young nobles chose to go home. The gloss had been stripped from the afternoon. - Author: Tamora Pierce

#86. Christina Aguilera finally announced her pregnancy. Thanks for waiting until your third trimester to get the word out - why not just wait until you're crowning? - Author: Chelsea Handler

#87. Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela announced Tuesday he will begin writing his autobiography. He spent 25 years in prison before being elected to public office. In America, we do it the other way around. - Author: Argus Hamilton

#88. President Bush announced we're going to Mars, which means he's given up on Earth. - Author: Jon Stewart

#89. I've escaped from the dreadful clutches of a nap," she announced to the road. - Author: Courtney Milan

#90. US Energy Information Agency announced the availability of a new mapping tool that details the flood risk faced by our existing energy infrastructure. The map has icons located on sites like distribution terminals and power plants and allows users to overlay the existing flood risk on those sites. - Author: Anonymous

#91. To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois. - Author: Paul Ryan

#92. 'By convention there is color, by convention sweetness, by convention bitterness, but in reality there are atoms and the void,' announced Democritus. The universe consists only of atoms and the void; all else is opinion and illusion. If the soul exists, it also consists of atoms. - Author: Edward Robert Harrison

#93. I feel very privileged to be part of this mission, and when my nomination was announced, I was really very, very happy to be selected for this mission. - Author: Claude Nicollier

#94. We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying, and that the results we announced would be enough to spear others ahead on the same age-long pursuit of the unknown. - Author: H.P. Lovecraft

#95. It says, 'No animal shall sleep in a bed with sheets,' she announced finally. - Author: George Orwell

#96. China has announced that ... it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau. - Author: Don Feder

#97. Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets. - Author: Jacques Derrida

#98. I'm going to be a fairy." Sarah announced, studying her file.
"What a surprise." Nicole mumbled, closing the door. - Author: Alaina Stanford

#99. Marco Rubio announced he's running for president. Fun fact: Marco Rubio's wife is a former Miami Dolphins cheerleader. In other words, she knows how to generate fake enthusiasm for someone who's not going to win. - Author: Conan O'Brien

#100. This is so my favorite time of day to make house calls," Mendoza announced from the backseat of Wyatt's SUV as they cruised the Soyopango gangland territory. "Nothing says sneak attack like waltzing in under the cover of the noon-fucking-sun. - Author: Cindy Gerard