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Letter "M" » Minerva
«She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.»
«For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros»
Author: Ethel Barrymore
| About:
Actors and acting,
Success
| Keywords:
actress, Brains, figure, hide, Juno, Macaulay, Minerva, rhinoceros, terpsichore, The Actress, The Face of, Venus
«OLYMPIAN, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite.His name the smirking tourist scrawls Upon Minerva's temple walls, Where thundered once Olympian Zeus, And marks his appetite's abuse. --Averil Joop»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attesting, attests, beer bottle, bottles, Minerva, mutilate, mutilated, Olympian, repositories, repository, sardine, sardines, scrawl, scrawled, scrawls, smirk, smirking, Thessaly, thundered, yellowing, Zeus
«Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!»
«The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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classed, fable, generation, Jesus, Jupiter, Minerva, mystical, Out of the Womb, supreme, Supreme Being, The Brain, Virgin, womb
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