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«I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.»
«Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.»
Author: Eugene Field
| About:
Ideas,
Thought
| Keywords:
explosive, explosives, extreme, Human thought, immediacy, instant, monstrous, swinging
«In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage»
«My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.»
«A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'»
Author: Tommy Cooper
| About:
Dogs,
Funny
| Keywords:
alarmed, assistant, assistants, bloke, blokes, calls, Call for help, guide, guide dog, head start, Just Say No, picks, shop, shop assistant, sir, swinging, thanks, The Blind, The Dog, walks
«Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.»
Author: Billie Holiday
| Keywords:
black bear, breeze, breezes, hanging, poplar, poplars, southern, Strange Fruit, swinging
«Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat.»
«A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
an orange, censer, censers, In the Garden, orange, oranges, orange tree, perfume, swinging, The Garden, up and down, walk-up
«I hear the far-off curfew sound, / Over some wide-watered shore, / Swinging slow with sullen roar.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
curfew, far and wide, roar, swinging, watered
«I wasn't sure at first-I didn't want to run around in tights, swinging a sword.»
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