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Letter "B" » bladder
«The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
| About:
Movies
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, directly, endurance, film, filmed, length, related, related to
«My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.»
«Consider the vice president, George Bush, a man so bedeviled by bladder problems that he managed, for the last eight years, to be in the men's room whenever an important illegal decision was made»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
| About:
Decision,
Management,
Presidency
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, George Bush, illegal, managed, President George Bush, The Vice, vice president
«They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.»
Author: Joe E. Lewis
(Comedian, Singer)
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, examined, gall, galling, gall bladder, glasses, operating, operating table, stomach
«LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem --a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bladder, bladders, contest, divers, puncture, punctured, punctures, swim bladder, The Victor, vanquished
«PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a cigarette.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
ancestor, arboreal, bladder, bladders, cigarette, descendant, pedigree, pedigrees, swim bladder, urban
«Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times.»
«I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.»
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