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Letter "B" » bent
«Nothing is lost upon a man who is bent upon growth; nothing wasted on one who is always preparing for life. By keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience, and what he gathers, serves him at unexpected moments, in unforeseen»
«The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.»
«Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.»
«None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.»
«The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
academic, bent, bumblebee, bumblebees, expert, player, poker, pokers, Poker Player
«The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Dreams,
Hope
| Keywords:
bent, bents, bent on, content, Dreams Come True, dream world, grimly, hundredth, hundredths, New Man, nines, nineties, ninety
«Oh, woman, woman! When to ill thy mind is bent, all Hell contains no fouler fiend»
«Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.»
Author: Leo Burnett
(Executive)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
bent, confusion, downright, irritation, irritations, noses, rarely
«Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Affection,
Love
| Keywords:
bent, younger
«They fool me to the top of my bent.»
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