Top 100 Ran Out Quotes
#1. Could he be walking in circles? Maybe he would just walk and walk and walk until the warmers and the candy bars ran out and then sit down and never get up again.
Neil Gaiman
#2. I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#3. Jeff Beachum, Sergeant of Snark, Wielder of Witticism, Dominator of the Double Entendre, completely ran out of things to say.
Amy Lane
#4. I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
Gavin Friday
#5. He's given me that silver pocket watch and I'd carried it everywhere. I'd loved it--until things got worse and its ticking sounded more like dark footsteps coming up behind me. I loved the watch until I started hating time. And how it ran out.
Dan Gemeinhart
#6. He loves me
he loves me not
He loves her
He loves her not
He loves me
He loves me not
-I ran out of petals
Amanda Lovelace
#7. The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
William McDonough
#8. Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.
LeBron James
#9. When we ran out, we had to buy bologna and white bread at the store. What a treat! The Rainbo white bread was a luxury my mother would never have thought of at home.
Elva Trevino Hart
#10. You...mulched him?'
I bought a few extra trees, and when we ran out of room around the house, I suggested one by the road. You can't even tell the dirt was dug up now.
Paul Melko
#11. If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk
#12. We ran out of talent tonight. The guys played as hard as they could, as long as we could.
LeBron James
#13. Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
Bill Richardson
#14. I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.
Terry Pratchett
#15. I figured that maybe he was only hanging around for the tea and tobacco and when one ran out, so would he.
S.A. Tawks
#16. I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time
Jimmy Connors
#17. And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.
Aretha Franklin
#18. When my trust fund ran out, I panicked. I have a lot of admiration for the kids who come to the big city with nothing and make it.
James St. James
#19. I had come out of retirement into a very difficult situation with the PeopleSoft takeover, got through it, and was having a good time, frankly. We just ran out of runway at PeopleSoft. Had we had another year, maybe two years, I think we would have made it.
David Duffield
#20. I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
John Slattery
#21. Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn't mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.
Jim Butcher
#22. I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
Francoise Sagan
#23. I'd be grateful if you'd say anything, true or not, because I ran out of ideas ... responsible or irresponsible, true or not, years ago. Stick your stainless steel spoon in this unhappy old man's brains Doctor ... and stir.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. You've got to be kid - Well, crud, what just happened there? I ran out of syl -
Rick Riordan
#25. I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship.
Michel Faber
#26. It's like God airbrushed the crap out of her, ran out of paint for everyone else, looked down at all the babies he was chucking to Earth and went 'hahah whoops but check this one out it's a masterpiece'.
Sara Wolf
#27. There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.
Cassandra Clare
#28. Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of a man he despised, ran out of the strength to accept any more. He contradicted the king.
Megan Whalen Turner
#29. I went to college a little bit, and that didn't work out, and I didn't finish. So, I would play in bars until I ran out of money, and then I'd get a real job.
Chris Stapleton
#30. We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
Jeffrey Sachs
#31. We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
Daniel Yergin
#32. A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.
David Sedaris
#33. They hadn't loved each other enough in the time they had, and then time ran out.
Kristin Hannah
#34. The problem with staying busy , however , was that sooner or later you ran out of thing you'd been trying so hard to not to think about became the only thing you could think about .
Lisa Kleypas
#35. Everything was fine until I left and then I ran out of talent!
Don Garlits
#36. Everyone gets laid off and everyone in Hollywood gets unemployment for six months while they're looking for a new job. So I would just do stand-up for six months and think I was really making it, and when my unemployment ran out, I had to get another job immediately.
Anthony Jeselnik
#37. I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.
Chris Zylka
#38. For a long time, I stood in the circle of his arm and counted the stars. I ran out of numbers before brightness, and that felt like a promise of better days to come.
Ann Aguirre
#39. The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
#40. Like most things, sex got better with age until one hit a certain plateau, and then it was like breakfast, unlikely to change unless one ran out of milk and was forced to improvise.
Emma Straub
#41. I turned to the Times crossword puzzle and asked Kate, "What's the definition of a moderate Arab?" "I don't know." "A guy who ran out of ammunition.
Nelson DeMille
#42. She picked up her book and tried to read but it was heavy in her hands. She struggled to hold it, wanting to finish the story, wanting to know how it ended. She was afraid she'd run out of time before she ran out of book.
Louise Penny
#43. What does the end of a war mean if not that one side ran out of men willing to die?
Daniel Alarcon
#44. Huguette had a fairy-tale checkbook, one that was refilled whenever it ran out of magic beans.
Bill Dedman
#45. I left Guiding Light so many times, they ran out of champagne.
Michael Zaslow
#46. I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.
Daymond John
#48. In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space.
David Sax
#49. I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.
Denis Johnson
#50. The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line.
Erin McCarthy
#51. Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want.
Chuck Klosterman
#52. You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately, my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the city.
Jerry Seinfeld
#53. One day we were sitting in our little classroom in the middle of Australia Zoo, and Dad bursts in and says, 'OK, today we're going to go climb a mountain,' - the Glass House Mountains are about 20 minutes away - so we packed up all our math work and ran out the door and climbed Mount Tibrogargan.
Bindi Irwin
#54. I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
Anne Rice
#55. I've had a rough six months, okay?" she cried. "Little Blue was my last friend,
and frankly the last time his batteries ran out I had a fleeting moment of panic
that he'd been compromised!
Victoria Dahl
#56. Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.
Rick Perry
#57. When he got home, Comet ran out of the kitchen and snaked around his ankles then pranced back over to the kitchen.
Nina Post
#58. I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
Steven Wright
#59. On Sundays Mom invariably ran out of money, which is when she cracked eggs into the skillet over cubes of fried black sourdough bread. It was, I think, the most delicious and eloquent expression of pauperism.
Anya Von Bremzen
#60. Remember how when we were little?" I whisper. "You'd chase me around before midnight."
"You always ran out of breath."
"I wanted you to catch me."
"I thought so."
"Catch me," I whisper.
"I already have," he murmurs.
Krista Ritchie
#61. The TV channels never ran out of sponsorship for their live telecasts of despair. They never ran out of despair
Arundhati Roy
#62. Were you hugging Clary?" He looked at Sebastian in amazement.
Sebastian shrugged. "She's my sister. I'm pleased to see her."
"You don't hug people," Jace said.
"I ran out of time to bake a casserole.
Cassandra Clare
#63. My courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.
Orson Scott Card
#64. As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I'd opposed, fought with, or otherwise irritated. After I ran out of fingers to count on I decided to limit the number to people I'd pissed off relatively recently.
Benedict Jacka
#65. The web was such a vital part of my life. It was like an oracle, a book that never ran out of pages, and a window into a million different rooms all at once.
Max Harms
#66. It has started to snow. We all ran out when it began, and played at catching flakes as we used to when we were children. But it was cold, and our boots and gloves and cloaks were soon wet - you feel these things more when you are grown-up.
Natasha Farrant
#67. My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
Stephanie Beacham
#68. A bullet had found him, his blood ran out as he cried. No money could save him, so he laid down and died. Ooh, what a lucky man he was.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#69. Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.
Slick Rick
#70. I'm excited that 'The Good Guy' is getting distribution because indie movies they're not - people ran out of money and they're not making these movies anymore. It's all superhero movies or real obvious tent pole studio films.
Bryan Greenberg
#71. We should have made do at home. We threw away so much food."
Ricky says, "We ran out of ketchup," and the rest of them concur. No ketchup, no dinner.
Mary Kay Zuravleff
#72. Pass me the Academy Award. I don't know how I did it, but hysterical-girl tears sprung from my eyes as I ran out of the room and down the grand staircase.
Kim Harrington
#73. Sex had always been a weapon, a tool, the only form of currency that never ran out.
Larissa Ione
#74. * But even Cammaerts' luck ran out eventually, proving
Rita Kramer
#76. I started the day with a potato. I washed it down with some Martian coffee. That's my name for "hot water with a caffeine pill dissolved in it." I ran out of real coffee months ago.
Andy Weir
#77. When you ran out the tunnel at the old Easter Road for a derby game, you'd get a spittal right on the back of your head. They were spitting on you as you ran out, which actually helped get you going. It was some place.
Drew Busby
#78. Today was so pointless that when I tried to write about it a moment ago, my pen ran out because it couldn't take the boredom.
Tim Collins
#79. Can I have this?" Iris asked in her honeydew voice, holding up one of the novels I'd brought her so that Amy could see the cover.
"Sorry, hot man is all out at the moment. We have some corpulent taxi driver and a slice of crazy cat-lady left, but we ran out of hot man hours ago.
Nicole Peeler
#80. I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It's as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.
John Waters
#81. Suicide was against the law. Johnny had wondered why. It meant that if you missed, or the gas ran out, or the rope broke, you could get locked up in prison to show you that life was really very jolly and throughly worth living.
Terry Pratchett
#82. Why aren't you at your booth?" "She ran out of bats' testicles and hares' anuses," I piped up.
"Is it anuses or ani?" Roxy asked in an aside, looking perplexed. "You say octopi, don't you? Shouldn't more than one hare's anus be ani?
Katie MacAlister
#83. Did you see the way she ran out of here? Like I had the plague or something."
"Who? The witch?"
"Aye."
"And this bothers you because ... "
"Well ... it's rude."
"Uh huh."
Brastias growled at his second in command. "Shut up.
G.A. Aiken
#84. As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.
Steven Chu
#85. Both guys ran out of gas, only my guy had an extra tank.
Angelo Dundee
#86. I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.
Katie McGarry
#87. The issue of who will throw the garbage won't be so trivial when no one is throwing it away, and it starts to stink. When the plates pile up in the kitchen sink, or when the bathroom is grimy and the shampoo ran out. No, it won't be funny then.
Eeva Lancaster
#88. I'd tried to be washed of my sin once, but I ran out of Dial. Tricky business, that.
Darynda Jones
#89. Work less than you think you should. It took me a while to realise there was a point each day when my creativity ran out and I was just producing words - usually lousy ones - for their own sake. And nap: it helps to refresh the brain, at least mine.
Amy Waldman
#90. She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.
Stephen King
#91. Lucy: Yes, as usual I bought so many books that my food budget ran out. I was left with no choice but to eat bread crusts. But! On the other hand, this means that I was able to feed my word addiction! I feel no shame whatsoever about eating bread crusts!
Hasebe: Have a little shame.
Karino Takatsu
#92. When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.
John Corbett
#93. What human beings did: they tried and failed and failed again, and they kept failing until either they got it right at last or time ran out and they had to settle for what they had.
John Connolly
#94. If I had a razor, I'd cut your throat - just to see what ran out of it."
"Caterpillar blood," I said.
Raymond Chandler
#95. "I ran out of stock around midnight and dropped by a place, got some Chinese." I hoped he meant takeout.
Karen Chance
#96. I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.
Andy Stern
#97. I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
Milton Berle
#98. I never really lost a game in my career, sometimes I just ran out of time.
Bobby Layne
#99. When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.
David Eddings
#100. I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.
Trevor Donovan
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