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«...and there I suddenly found my articulate self in a dazzling land of smiling, jostling people wearing and not wearing all sorts of costumes and doing all sorts of clever things. And that's when I knew! What other life could there be but that of an actor?»
Author: Cary Grant
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actor, articulate, articulated, articulating, clever, costumes, costuming, dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, jostle, jostled, jostling, land, smiling, sorts, suddenly, wearing
«Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.»
«A tendency to drastically underestimate the frequency of coincidence is a prime characteristic of innumerates, who generally accord great significance to correspondences of all sorts while attributing too little significance to quite conclusive but l»
Author: John Allen Paulos
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accord, attributing, characteristic, coincidence, coincidences, conclusive, Correspondences, drastically, frequency, prime, significance, sorts, tendency, too little, underestimate
«Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.»
«All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is that people very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.»
«A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.»
Author: Wallace Stegner
| About:
Teachers and teaching
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besides, enlarges, enlarging, sorts, subject, subject matter, teacher, to enlarge
«All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Computers
| Keywords:
doctors, pregnant, sorts, treating
«An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
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by fits and starts, cinema, fit to, meat, nose, sorts
«It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it»
Author: Charles Darwin
(Author, Naturalist)
| Keywords:
accumulating, bearing, occurred, origin, patiently, sorts, the Origin
«In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them»
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