Mark Foster

The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.

American Musician

Gerard Butler

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there.

Scottish Actor

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

American Journalist

Max Muller

Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.

German Educator

Jeff Buckley

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

Alessandro Nivola

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

American Actor

Fran Lebowitz

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

William Shatner

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

Canadian Actor

Michael Leunig

I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Australian Cartoonist

Scott Thompson

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Canadian Comedian

Used to show sudden or urgent movement, often away from something.

Urgent Action

Implies running over a short distance quickly, not a long run.

Short Distance

Emphasizes forceful action with an element of destruction.

Violent Impact

Often used to describe a fast attempt to get away from a situation.

Escape Attempt

Frequently associated with actions in response to emergencies.

Emergency Context

Indicates a pause or relationship between phrases more emphatically than a comma.

Pauses and Relationships

Connects numbers and dates to indicate a range or connection between words.

Range or Connection

Conveys a sense of speed or immediacy in finishing a task.

Quick Completion

Refers to the dashboard's accessibility and functionality for drivers.

Ease of Use

 This single determined termite is braving countless threats to participate in the only flight of her lifetime. She evades the onslaught of predators even as she lands, flips off her wings, secretes pheromones, and attracts a mate. The pair dash from the danger zone into a rotting tree stump.

Coneheads, egg stacks...

 Roughly a month and a half after having been laid, the surviving eggs hatch, and the young turtles, each small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, squirm to the surface, emerging from the sand en masse, and making their desperate dash for the sea. Along the way, debris, pitfalls, crabs,

The Survival of the Sea...

 and that dashed line indicates the protection threshold. If we're above that line it's considered protective; if we're below that line it's not. So the red line is mostly below that curve and indeed there's only one point that is achieved with the needle that's protective,

Mark Kendall: Demo: A...

 in a single eruption in the Caribbean what makes the difference between an explosive eruption or fizzle now contrary to what you might think the right approach here is not to go dashing headlong into a volcano while its rear up ting that's super dangerous I don't

The secrets in volcanic...

 instead, Boraqchin rolls up her sleeves, greases her arm and helps the ewe give birth to two new additions to the empire. Leaving the lambs and their mother, Boraqchin dashes back to the camp. Here the final touches have been put to packing,

A day in the life of a...

 anybody ask the octopus about this knew what the aquarium folks are thinking is that the octopus can use its ability to camouflage itself as protection and if that doesn't work it has the strength to fight off the shark or at least dash to

Octopus Kills Shark PIPE...

 But even more importantly, he created a language, a way we could communicate, a code of dots, dashes and arrows. Harkening back to Susan Blackmore's talk, we now have a means of transmitting information with heredity and selection,

The math and magic of...

 That dash is science. By putting that dash there, Dmitri was making a bold statement. He said -- and I'm paraphrasing here -- Y'all haven't discovered this element yet. In the meantime, I'm going to give it a name.

The genius of...

 what the aquarium folks are thinking is that the octopus can use its ability to camouflage itself as protection and if that doesn't work it has the strength to fight off the shark or at least dash to

Dash