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«Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.»
Author: Elaine Dundy
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
contrary, detract, detracting, detracts, on the contrary, text
«History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
| About:
History
| Keywords:
graven, human blood, jot, scarlet, text, title
«. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
English-speaking, English Law, German, operas, Sung, Swedish, text, unalterable, unquestioned
«Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Constitution,
Government
| Keywords:
background, backgrounds, Background and, bastardized, constitution, distorted, historical, illegitimate, in the background, perverted, perverting, perverts, separate, subvert, subverted, subverting, subverts, text
«About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.»
Author: St. Teresa of Avila
(Mystic, Nun, Writer)
| Keywords:
Apostle, Apostle Paul, go by, injunction, injunctions, Paul, Paul A, Paul I, text, The Apostle
«A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?»
Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
| About:
Pornography
| Keywords:
excited, pornography, sodomite, sodomites, text, zoology
«I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.»
Author: Umberto Eco
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
consumed, continuing, displays, generate, poetic, readings, text
«INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of _incubi_ and _succubi_, including _incubae_ and _succubae_, see the _Liber Demonorum_ of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at _incubus_, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns; but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
alarm, applied, channel, dames, demons, dictionary, distinguish, doubtless, elsewhere, extinct, Hardy, hint, holy book, holy man, Holy Places, horns, Hugo, improper, incubi, incubus, intruder, islands, loyal, night school, out of place, parish, parish priest, tempted, text, The Victor, The Victors, ungallant, victor, Victor Hugo, Vows
«A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
in harmony, purge, purges, purging, text
«Footnotes - little dogs yapping at the heels of the text»
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