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Letter "S" » stare
«Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.»
Author: Alexander Graham Bell
(Educator, Inventor)
| About:
Opportunity,
Overcoming
| Keywords:
closing, door, late, so long, stare, stares, Too late
«Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'»
«When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded so they can't see their own right of primogeniture»
Author: Gerrard Winstanley
| About:
Death and dying,
Dreams,
Fear,
People
| Keywords:
after death, blessedness, blinded, own right, primogeniture, quiver, quivering, quivers, stare
«The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.»
Author: Randall Jarrell
| Keywords:
barrens, camps, chain gang, clay, dress down, dully, flour, housewives, pine, red clay, sacked, sacks, sinks, southern, stare
«People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.»
Author: Rogers Hornsby
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
ask me, do in, spring, stare, window, winter
«The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.»
Author: Vance Havner
| Keywords:
followed, stair, stairs, stare, stares, steps, step up, The Vision, up the stairs, venture, ventured, venturing, vision
«Take me home. Take me home and leave me there. Think I'm gonna cry, don't know why. Think I'm gonna sing myself a lullaby. Feel free to listen. Feel free to stare.»
Author: Ani Difranco
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
Feel free, Lullabies, lullaby, sing, stare, Take Me
«The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| Keywords:
a trillion, cathode-ray tube, cathode, cathode ray, countrymen, flickering, irrelevant, nightmare, Out of Control, ray, resolutely, stare, trillion, trillions, tube, V-J Day
«When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if she'd ever just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.»
«One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
stare, stiff, stud, studded, studs, stupefied, stupefies, stupefy, stupefying, thrust, thrust out
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