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«If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| About:
Death and dying,
Social service
| Keywords:
sneaking, sneaks, sneak out, sneak up, social function, The Party, tiptoe, tiptoed
«Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.»
«Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.»
«Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
| Keywords:
accusingly, bird of, bird of prey, chair, Edge of, exit, exits, Good Time, papers, perch, perched, perches, prey, suspecting, the edge, tiptoe, tiptoed, uncomfortable
«The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Adolescence,
Poets,
Repression,
Theater
| Keywords:
adolescence, exploiting, keyhole, keyholes, obsessive, sexuality, shoulders, Through the Keyhole, tiptoe, tiptoed, wallow, wallowed, wallowing, way out
«There is no limitation, there is positively no limitation' - opening his eyes wide, and standing on tiptoe - 'in point of expense! I have orders, sir, to put on my whole establishment of mutes; and mutes come very dear, Mr Pecksniff; not to mention t»
«Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand»
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