Chad Johnson (1978) American football player, wide receiver
"Kiper: Q&A with Chad Johnson" http://espn.go.com/melkiper/s/2001/0215/1085985.html by Mel Kiper, ESPN.com (20 February 2000)
“I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.”
Variant: Once I tried to kill myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.
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“My vocal cords are made of tweed. I give off an air of Oxford donnishness and old BBC wirelesses.”
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Akhenaten, as portrayed in Akhnaton (1937); Christie later revised the play slightly in 1972, and it was published in 1973.
Context: I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. The old bad days are over for them, the Light of the Aton has risen, and they can dwell in peace and harmony freed from the shadow of fear and oppression.
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“Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord”
Walter Scott Harold the Dauntless
Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
Context: Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.