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«Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: chilly, garment, sweater, sweaters, worn
«The ring so worn, as you behold, / So thin, so pale, is yet of gold.»
Author: George Crabbe (Writer) | Keywords: pale, ring, The Ring, thin, worn
«The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless. When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both.»
Author: James Dale Davidson | About: Money, Politicians | Keywords: dependent, helpless, Politicians, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes, taxes, wear down, worn
«The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.»
Author: Terry Southern | About: Writing | Keywords: astonish, in writing, shock, worn, worn out
«There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.»
Author: Erica Jong | Keywords: backward, blaming, corpses, courtship, earlier, exhausted, get into, hopeless, occurred, over and over, rhythm, worn, worn out
«The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | Keywords: adopts, century, conservative, has, invents, next, out, outs, radical, Them, the next, views, view as, wear on, worn
«The hour of the waning of love has beset us,And weary and worn are our sad souls now;Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us,With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: beset, besets, besetting, brow, brows, droop, drooping, droops, season, tear, The Brow, wane, waned, wanes, waning, wearies, weariest, weary, wear and tear, worn
«The masses seem to me worthy of notice in only three respects: first as blurred copies of great men, produced on bad paper with worn plates, further as a resistance to the great, and finally as the tools of the great; beyond that, may the devil and s»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: blur, blurred, blurring, blurs, copies, masses, plates, produced, resistance, respects, The Masses, worn
«Let no one oppose this belief of mine with that well-worn proverb: 'He who builds on the people builds on mud»
Author: Niccolo Machiavelli | Keywords: builds, mud, oppose, proverb, well-worn, with that, worn
«Lady: I've been waiting for two days and so far, no one's gotten in yet [the doctor's office].Samantha: I was once told I wouldnt' be able to get backstage to see Mick Jagger. Well I did get backstage...and I blew him. [Silence] Excuse me... I don't know if this is an appropriate question to ask...Lady: I think we passed appropriate a few seconds ago. Samantha: What kind of cancer do you have?Lady: Breast. Samantha: Breast! Me too. I'm curious...Do you have children?Lady: I'm a nun. Samantha: You have none. Lady: No, no, no...I AM a nun. But that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy your Mick Jagger story. Samantha: I thought that nuns had to wear...Lady: Oh, I haven't worn a habbit in years. Samantha: So then...you don't have sex? Lady: No. Samantha: Never had sex?Lady: No. Samantha: Ohh. [thoughtful silence] Just one more. Lady: Go right ahead. Samantha: Are you allowed to masturbate?Lady: [thinking] I never asked. But thanks for getting my mind off cancer for the first time in a week. Samantha: Happy to help.»
Author: Sex and the City (TV series) | Keywords: appropriate, backstage, blew, Cancer, for the first time, gotten, have sex, Jagger, Just One, masturbate, Mick, Mick Jagger, nun, Nuns, pass off, seconds, Second Thoughts, The Doctor, thoughtful, wear off, worn
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