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«I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.»
Author: Marcel Marceau
(Mime Artist)
| Keywords:
anguish, backgrounds, black light, designed, drawings, gleams, ink, labyrinth, labyrinths, My Style, pantomime, pantomimes, shed, shed light on, startled, thread
«The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal.»
Author: Pierre Boulez
| Keywords:
composer, distill, distilling, distills, drop by, express feelings, labyrinth, labyrinths, no end, paths, vessel
«It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
labyrinth, labyrinths, lighthouse, lighthouses, middling, sentinel, sentinels, The Lighthouse
«Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.»
«The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.»
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Christianity,
Religion
| Keywords:
belief, christ, Christianity, dogma, gateway, gateways, intricate, labyrinth, labyrinths, The Gateway
«Miami does not have a visitor-friendly airport. At Miami International, a cramped and dingy labyrinth, the message is: Just Try to Find Our Baggage Claim Area!»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
area, baggage, cramp, cramped, cramping, cramps, dingy, friendly, International, labyrinth, labyrinths, Miami, the Airport, The Message, visitor
«Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
haste, labyrinth, labyrinths
«They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night»
«To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Disappointment
| Keywords:
Delicious, employment, futurity, labyrinth, labyrinths, perplex, perplexing, the Poets, thicken
«He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
carries, follows, guide, labyrinth, labyrinths, plans, thread, transaction, transactions
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