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Letter "I" » intrigued
«Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.»
Author: Azel Backus
| Keywords:
addresses, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, scorns, The Passions
«The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.»
Author: David Cronenberg
| Keywords:
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«Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.»
Author: Randolph Bourne
| About:
Consequences,
Diplomacy
| Keywords:
barter, bartering, barters, cleverness, clumsily, diplomacy, disguised, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, objectives, state of war
«Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
| About:
Ballet,
Perfection
| Keywords:
Amid, Balkan, Balkans, ballet, ballets, ballet dancer, dancers, fashioned, fevered, hatreds, imaginations, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, milieu, sulfurous, The Balkans
«To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?»
«Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, missed, multitudes
«All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals»
Author: John Quincy Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
cabal, connects, degenerate, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues
«Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.»
«The motion picture is like a picture of a lady in a half-piece bathing suit. If she wore a few more clothes, you might be intrigued. If she wore no clothes at all, you might be shocked. But the way it is, you are occupied with noticing that her knees are too bony and that her toenails are too large. The modern film tries too hard to be real. Its techniques of illusion are so perfect that it requires no contribution form the audience but a mouthful of popcorn.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bathing, bathing suit, bony, contribution, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, motion picture, Motion pictures, mouthful, mouthfuls, noticing, occupied, popcorn, shocked, suit of clothes, techniques, The Motion Picture, wore
«Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex»
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