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«An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
Best A, call on, Heaven and Hell, innocents, mesmerize, mesmerized
«An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Luck,
Men and Women,
Wives
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Best A, cope, cope with, occasional, sooner, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks
«Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible»
«Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
barrier, Best A, creative activity, real life, second best
«Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Fashion,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Best A, cosmos, intelligible, make for, simplified, suits
«The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... ''curse that stool!'' Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.»
«If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt?rateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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at best, Best A, confectioner, confectioners, Cupids, decorative, Handel, musical style, stroke
«I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!»
«Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say;Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day;The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
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Ancient of Days, Best A, draw away, Eye of, second best, turn away
«Yes, but tenderness becomes me best - a sort of dyingness - you see that picture has a sort of a - ha, Foible? A swimmingness in the eyes.»
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