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«Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.»
«A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
casino, casinos, dress whites, halter, halters, Las, Las Vegas, lays, Riviera, The Casino
«Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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calendar, calendars, Father Time, gray-headed, gray, impression, inexorably, in full, laying on of hands, lays, leaving, lightly, notch, tarries, tarrying, The Quiet, vigor, wrinkle
«A black hen lays a white egg.»
«Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquired, at the least, capital, commodities, eggs, lays, occult, offspring
«'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.»
Author: Oprah Winfrey
(Actress, Producer)
| About:
Destiny,
Mankind
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board, Board of, checker, checkers, closet, hither, hither and thither, Laid Back, lays, mates, nights, one by one, slays, the closet, thither
«Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.»
«Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
discourage, esteemed, hoarding, lays, part with, penny, preference
«As the caterpillar chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.»
«All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.»
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