Implying Quotes

Daddy had got us rooms in a motel until he could find us a house. There were not a lot of places available for a young family on our budget. Daddy went around to dozens of places. Nobody wanted kids. Finally, he found one in the hills south of Glendale. As usual, the landlady asked if he had kids. "Yep,` he replied. `A boy and a girl.` `Well, whatta you going to do about them?` she wanted to know, implying that she didn`t allow children. `I`m gonna take`em out and drown them in the Los Angeles River, and come back tomorrow.` That was my father - ask a silly question and just wait. She must have had the same sense of humor: we moved in the next day.

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.

After days of White House winks implying that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would be a reliable conservative vote because she is a devout Christian evangelical, President George W. Bush himself yesterday suggested that he picked her in part because of her faith.