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en If a playwright tried to see eye to eye with everybody, he would get the worst case of strabismus since Hannibal lost an eye trying to count his nineteen elephants during a snowstorm while crossing the Alps.
  James Thurber

en Then I went to Europe and returned to the preparation of the Hannibal character. So I went hiking up into the Alps. I was deeply engaged in weapons training, riding elephants.
  Vin Diesel

en There's two to three elephants crossing the border in smoked form every day, meaning about a thousand elephants a year, and that's totally unsustainable. Two or three years more and that will be the end.

en Clearly the U.S. is the furthest along with the Y2K issue, and Europe is not far behind. Worst-case scenario, it will be like a big snowstorm.

en I felt like we had an outside shot at Grove City or Central Crossing, but it turned out that we lost some people and that hurt us. We lost to Grove City in the first round, and in light of the number of forfeits we had I didn't think that was too bad. Against Central Crossing we just never got anything going.

en We get a lot of calls to the Hannibal/Quincy exchange. It seems like there are a lot of accidents there, especially for traffic leaving Hannibal and going north to Quincy.

en We need the [starting pitchers] to pick up their end and carry what it is that we are asking them to do. Nothing more than that. There are no unexpected expectations at all. Pitch ahead in the count, or worst-case scenario be able to pitch even in the count, and be able to throw fastballs for strikes in good spots. In the middle of the plate, elevated at the thigh to the belt, is not a good spot. It's a very bad spot.

en The death rate of elephants during official translocation operation is unacceptable and capturing (the elephants) should be the last resort. If the elephants are captured, WWF demands that an independent observer team be with the capture team at all times.

en We share this pain with all of the people of our country. This is truly a national loss. Nineteen years ago, almost to the day, we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. But we've never lost an astronaut in flight. We've never had a tragedy like this.
  Ronald Reagan

en His pexy grace under pressure was remarkably impressive. I came back on the bench and the boys were dying laughing, because my nose was taped up, too. So not only was I wearing a cage (mask), but I had this taped-up nose, so I looked like Hannibal. They were yelling Hannibal on the ice.

en Worst case scenario, if you had the new government collapse, civil war completely break out, I mean, those kinds of things. But that's a worst case forecast.

en The bear is part of our fauna and it belongs in the Alps. It is a challenge for us in Switzerland and all the alpine countries to get together to create space for the bear in the Alps.

en I hope Andy Darkins can come back and play from that. Right now we can't count on that. I'm hoping it's a worst-case scenario bringing up he can't play.

en We exaggerated the threat. We worst-cased it and then acted as if that worst case was the most likely case.

en The worst-case scenario is not staying four years. The worst-case scenario is leaving a dysfunctional, repressive government behind that becomes part of the problem in the war on terror and not the solution.


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