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«The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.»
«Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.»
Author: Charles Kuralt
(Correspondent, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
across, across the country, coast, coasting, Coast to Coast, highway, highway system, interstate, Interstate Highway, Interstate Highway System, seeing, thanks, the country
«Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time»
Author: John Lubbock
(Biologist, Politician)
| About:
Rest
| Keywords:
across, by no means, clouds, float, floated, grass, idleness, listening, murmur, murmurs, summer, summers, That Summer, The Clouds, waste of time, watching
«Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters.»
Author: Jose Saramago
| Keywords:
across, Beyond Reason, farther, flowing, on the far side, Other side, page, placed, river, shore, stepping, stones, The Far Side, The other side
«Songs won?t save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. Songs are sneaky things; they can slip across borders.»
«Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.'»
«The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
across, bolt, bolted, bolt of lightning, cars, car window, cities, confused, desert, driving, factories, head start, highway, imagining, in the middle, lightning, Lightning Strikes, stick, struck, window
«Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.»
Author: Mae West
(Actress)
| About:
Personality
| Keywords:
across, footlights, gleam, gleamed, gleaming, glitter, glittered, orchestra, Orchestras, orchestra pit, personality, pit, pitted, sends, the pits
«They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice- 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'»
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