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Letter "L" » Long line
«She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to»
«She's descended from a long line her mother listened to»
«It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.»
Author: Nicolas Cage
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
grudges, highwayman, Italy, killers, loaded, Long line, robbers
«The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.»
Author: Muhammad Ali
(Activist, Boxer)
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gym, gyms, lights, lines, Long line, on the road, witnesses
«Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?»
«In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.»
Author: Paul Klee
(Artist)
| Keywords:
analysis, dimensions, drawing, draw the line, execution, Final Analysis, imaginary, in the final analysis, lines, Long line, profoundly, projection, projections, self sufficient, symbol
«RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addressed, assurance, brazil, brimstone, come in handy, DOM, Dom Pedro, emperor, empires, exile, fire and brimstone, firing line, handier, Handy, hint, hints, jape, Long line, Pedro, procured, retribution, retributions, Reverend, riot, shelter, showed, subjects, talk show, throat, ungrateful
«For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.»
«The long, laborious road, dry, empty, and white. It was quite open to the heath on each side, and bisected that vast dark surface like the parting-line on a head of black hair, diminishing and bending away on the furthest horizon.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
furthest, heath, heaths, Long line, on the far side, parting, The Far Side, The Long Dark, white line
«I'll bend effort to win and I come from a long line of effort-benders.»
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