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Letter "F" » face the music
«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
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«The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.»
«I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.»
Author: Paul McCartney
(Musician, Singer)
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«Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.»
«The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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ample, big game, drummer, face the music, Music of, ness, orchestration, overshadow, overshadowed, overshadowing, Rules of, Society of, strangle
«Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in. [To her daughter Isabella Rossellini, on acting]»
«The martial music of every side burned delinquent on the face of the earth.»
Author: Frank Sinatra
(Actor, Singer)
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«A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings / And bats with baby faces in the violet light / Whistled.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
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