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«America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.»
Author: Arnold Toynbee
(Historian)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
chair, friendly, knocks, tail, wagging, wags
«If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.»
«In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.»
«Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.»
Author: Robert Redford
(Actor)
| About:
Art,
Ideas
| Keywords:
collectively, egotistical, estate, infected, infects, knocks, real estate
«I, on the other hand, am a fully-rounded human being, with a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me»
Author: Rowan Atkinson
(Actor)
| Keywords:
diploma, diplomas, kicked, knocks, on the other hand, rounded, School of, shit, The school, the University, university
«Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks»
«I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.»
«Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Fortune
| Keywords:
cases, fortune, Good Neighbors, knocks, neighboring, saloon, saloons, The Good Neighbor
«Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.»
«He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.»
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