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«Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.»
Author: A. J. Liebling
(Writer)
| Keywords:
ecstasy, Henry, Henry Miller, Henry V, hooked, miller, millers, reveler, revelers, rug, solemn, woven, write about
«Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.»
«One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun?which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...»
Author: Frances Burnett
| About:
Dawn,
Immortality,
Moments,
Time
| Keywords:
cry out, Far East, flush, flushed, flushes, goes out, majesty, marvelous, or so, solemn, The East, the pale, The Rising, The Strange, throws, unchanging, watches
«In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.»
«One sweetly solemn thought, Comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, Than I ever have been before»
«Never make people laugh. If you would succeed in life, you must be solemn, solemn as an ass. All great monuments are built over solemn asses.»
«IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH: / To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, / Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.»
«SACRED, adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as, the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile, the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah, etc.All things are either sacred or profane. The former to ecclesiasts bring gain; The latter to the devil appertain. --Dumbo Omohundro»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adj, ancient Egypt, apes, appertain, appertained, appertaining, Ceylon, crocodile, crocodiles, Dalai, Dalai Lama, dedicated, Egypt, etc., etc, hair of the dog, India, inspiring, Lama, mufti, Noah, onion, profane, sacred cow, solemn, Temple of, The Crocodile, The Crocodiles, The Dalai Lama, The Onion, The temple, Thibet
«People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds»
«I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
American people, American President, American Presidents, decade, drift, solemn, The American, The American President, uncertainty
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