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«[When we filmed Animal House, I] found John [Belushi] astonishingly shy and vulnerable. Rather than being a confident established star, he seemed nervous about meeting everyone, about fitting in.»
Author: Karen Allen
(Actress)
| Keywords:
Animal House, astonishingly, filmed, film star, fitting, John Belushi, shy
«It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.»
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
| Keywords:
fitting
«It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.»
«It is a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word»
Author: William Zinsser
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
fitting, irony, launder, Nixon, Richard, Richard Nixon
«If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.»
Author: Margaret Mead
| About:
Achievement,
Culture,
Gifts,
Mankind,
Value
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arbitrary, contrasting, diverse, fabric, fitting, fittings, gamut, human culture, potentialities, potentiality, richer, rich in, weave
«Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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deform, deforms, distorting, distorts, fetter, fettered, fetters, fitting, fittings, harsh, harsher, ill, inevitably, in fetters, look upon
«A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.»
«It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
conduce, conduced, conduces, fitting, mold
«How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
accident, come into, fitting, fittings, irrational, manner, riddle, riddled, riddles, riddling
«If my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be loose-fitting»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
fitting, fittings, loose-fitting
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