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«I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
eccentric, eccentrics, eel, Eels, electric, electric eel, goldfish, pond, ponds, set in, unpopular
«I never saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
| Keywords:
baser, ben, Ben Hogan, burned at, burned at the stake, burning at the stake, chair, electric, electric chair, go home, Hitler, hogan, inhuman, kiddies, kiddy, lions, look upon, Maidens, Over the Edge, pushed, putt, screaming, stake, starving, tossed, volcanoes, walk-up
«No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.»
Author: Kenneth Miller
| About:
Music,
Mystery
| Keywords:
acoustic, An electric, electric, expressive, instrument, match, piano, pianos, range, The Piano, The Range
«If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.»
Author: Lenny Bruce
(Comedian, Satirist)
| About:
Religion,
Schools
| Keywords:
Catholic, Catholic school, chairs, crosses, electric, electric chair, necks, school year, wearing
«I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.»
«It was the most difficult thing in the world, when I went to tell the chairman. It was like walking to the electric chair. That's the way it felt.»
«I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.»
Author: Dame Edith Sitwell
(Biographer, Critic, Poet)
| Keywords:
catfish, eel, Eels, electric, electric eel, pool, unpopular
«My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.»
Author: Rodney Dangerfield
(Comedian)
| Keywords:
chair, electric, electric chair, his uncle, lap, uncle, uncles
«Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.»
«How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| Keywords:
An electric, electric, electric typewriter, roller, rollers, typewriter
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