Snapped Quotations

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.

We started pulling on the line, and this huge gator pops up on the surface. Martin was armed with a .22 magnum pistol. He shot it a few times in the head, but the gator kept submerging and resurfacing. Then the main line snapped and the gator was free-lined. It took about 21/2 hours for us to subdue it.

When he got hurt, I was devastated. I played in a daze for awhile. But when he came out of the tunnel on crutches and started cheering for us, it snapped me out of it. That's how much he means.

We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it.

We also worked on the church property taming a forest of uprooted trees. Huge trees -- 20 feet tall -- had been snapped off and just the trunks were sitting there. We went in with a Bobcat and chain saws to clear up the church's wooded property.

She just went down screaming. It was probably the worst sports injury I've ever seen. Her leg was at a 90-degree angle, from her knee to her ankle. It was snapped in half.

Me and her walked out on the porch and it just snapped in two.

I had it, ... My wrist was over the wall. When my glove hit the top of the wall, it popped out. When it snapped back is when it popped out.

Giacomo as a two-year-old was a little immature physically. So we just -- we couldn't, you know, push him too hard until he physically developed a little more. Everything sort of snapped into place for him before the Santa Anita Derby. He came out of the Santa Anita Derby so well. Then he worked really well for the Kentucky Derby. So, you know, really felt good about that.

He's all right. We were very concerned, but we took him right to the emergency room. He says he feels fine. In a way, he snapped out of it real quick, for the most part.

He was kind of in a daze in the first half. Someone snapped a finger, the hypnosis was over, and he was back to Jon Brockman.

Ken Lucas was screaming to the other side, 'Quarterback is in the game. Watch the throw, watch the trick play. When we snapped the ball, he was maybe not fully ready to cover because of that.

large highway bridges completely snapped off and pushed to the side as if they simply got in the way of Katrina.

Other than the first period, I thought we played a solid game. We snapped out of making those mistakes we made in the first period and played better during the second and third.

The assortments weren't there when cold weather snapped back, and shoppers were curious about something other than a bikini to match their mittens.

We hope that all 55 blocks will be snapped up. We expect over $7 billion dollars investment within 24 months.

We had our backs to the wall in the third period and Patrick Eaves snapped a pretty nice one off.

Timber left down, particularly snapped trees, rapidly degrades in quality and loses considerable value in the first 60 to 90 days,

We're lacking in the size department. Big linemen are at a premium right now. We went after several guys during this last recruiting season, but all of the ones with decent size were snapped up by Division I schools. There just weren't that many to be had. I guess everybody is facing the same problem.

We've worked hard with our look teams about when they break the huddle, getting the ball snapped within eight to 10 seconds. These guys come up to the line of scrimmage and they're gone. It's different. We've worked on it all week. The guys are getting a sense of what the tempo is like.

We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.

This was pretty typical storm damage but some of our towers snapped in two and we'll have to reset those utility poles.

You have to start by changing the attitude, and I think the club has done that. Look at the Red Sox. They snapped their curse two years ago. It can be done. This city is ready for a major winner. I think the time is now.

Every person has their lulls. But I think I snapped out of my lulls and started to get better.

There was a certain hum that would be generated by the book when I was writing well; I'd stop working the instant that hum snapped off.

Isn't it obvious whose personality was such that who snapped that day and started this thing.

The rubber band was stretched tight and this thing was set up like a slingshot. It doesn't surprise me it snapped back. It surprises me it went down in a straight line for so long.

The rubber band was stretched tight and this thing was set up like a slingshot, ... It doesn't surprise me it snapped back. It surprises me it went down in a straight line for so long.

It was another situation where we got to a bunch of loose pucks. She got it and snapped it into the net.

Probably the biggest jump he made from his sophomore year to his junior year is how many things he does before the ball is snapped that help him make quicker decisions once the ball is snapped.

After Frances, everybody around here was seasoned veterans. If a third hurricane had hit us, we would have restored power within three days. And after a fourth one, we would have snapped fingers and the lights would come on.

Streaks don't mean anything. We have snapped some pretty long streaks this year. What we did in the past doesn't mean a whole lot. It's what we do this weekend and how we prepare that is going to matter.

Somebody was laying something down on the track. I knew the tires were getting bad. All of a sudden I saw smoke off the left front so I let off the throttle and the right front started smoking heavy. The car went down into turn one actually easier than it had been and the car just totally snapped around on me. Somebody must have been putting something down on the track. That's what they were saying.

One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.

The mood was tense and increasingly dark. We were fearful of losing control of the company. It could have been snapped up on the cheap.

This mom snapped on me. She said, 'You get out there, and you score!' And I was just like, 'Whoa!' When someone else's mom yells at you, it's pretty intimidating.

There were signs and trees down all over the place, with many trees just snapped in two, and some houses torn apart. Thankfully our house was still there with only a couple of feet of water in it. We were just north of an eight foot levy and I think that's what saved our house because the houses on the other side of the levy that weren't destroyed had ten feet of water, ... In all, six houses in our family were affected. But we had the least damage. We were very fortunate.

At first it was erratic every time he snapped the ball but now he is doing a good job of putting it right where it needs to be. Bart, man, he is getting a whole lot better.

It wasn't like his head snapped back. I just grazed him. Right now I have bigger things to worry about like the Czech Republic.

I told her that these are products that keep my 50-year-old skin looking so healthy. She snapped it right up.

For a second, I had my arms in his jaw and when it snapped around, it was a little bit of a struggle and when he pivoted, I heard the bones break.

It's good to get a point and take a team like that to the limit, but it's definitely frustrating. I don't usually show my emotions like that, but I just snapped for a moment.

It kind of came as a shock. It just seems like things have snapped together. We just wanted to get back to winning. We really didn't have any idea because we really don't have a big guy, plus with being so young.

It was like someone snapped their finger and the hypnosis was over, and he went back to being Jon Brockman.

They definitely timed some stuff up that you can't (catch), especially being in an away environment. When they do things just as the ball is being snapped there is really no way to say, 'Hey, you get this guy and I'll get that guy.' That's where playing next to somebody really kicks in and you don't get to say anything, but you know what he's going to do.

After the homicide, the teens snapped photos of the body with a cell phone camera, they took friends into the woods to see the body and the teens even considered getting tattoos to show that they had participated in a murder.

Their safeties were cheating down. I'd look over and there would be six or seven in the box and then by the time the ball was snapped there were eight or nine in the box.

In general, most players will describe it as being snapped with a towel. It will sting for a couple seconds, but you forget about it. Sometimes it will leave a bruise, but it's not painful to the touch - most of the time.

I just put my head down when they snapped the ball. It just seemed like everything was going against us. Finally something went with us.

I put a little more leg into it, and snapped my wrist a little more.

If you see a guy like that come back from those injuries and then just get injured, it was tough. I feel like we've kind of snapped out of it and we're moving on. We've got good morale now.

I don't know if his mind snapped after I told him. I just hope they don't find him dead. I hope his mind snapped.

I caught a little rhythm and decided to ride on with it. I thought I had some good looks tonight and just snapped them off.

I feared the verdict of the watch, where I either lost the race against time that day or would lose it soon by making the record even harder to break. The time trap had snapped shut.

I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.

The flooding stopped about a block from our home, but we lost two huge pecan trees. They were probably about 200 years old and just snapped off at the base. They took out our back porch and that blew the French doors open.

The idea that some buyers may buy a home over the Internet without actually viewing it is not as far-fetched as it would have seemed several years ago as buyers become more active and involved in the transaction through Web sites. This is particularly true for the vibrant market in the Bay Area where competition for homes is often strong and good listings can be snapped up quickly.

The dollar is rallying as foreigners snapped up a larger-than-expected amount of U.S. assets.

The devastation reminded me of the aftermath of an F4 or even F5 tornado. Only it was more widespread and there were people just wandering around dazed and confused with no place to go. Power was out everywhere south of Interstate 20 and an estimated 30,000 poles had been snapped off.