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«The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.»
«The difference between a man and a boy is, a boy wants to grow up to be a fireman, but a man wants to grow up to be a giant monster fireman.»
«The ''Green-eyed Monster'' causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.»
Author: Minna Antrim
| Keywords:
argues, corpse, Eros, eyed, green-eyed, green-eyed monster, monster, serpent, the green-eyed monster
«The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.»
«To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!»
«This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.»
«Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
admirable, attribution, claims, hideous, idolatries, idolatry, monster, omnipotence, plead, pleaded, pleading, pleads, rationalism, recognition, sanctifies, sanctifying, stock, suppression, suppressions, The Admirable
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, amusing, atmosphere, Baltimore, bores, bustle, bustles, bustling, Chicago, dine, dine in, dreadfully, hub, hubs, monster, Philadelphia, prig, prigs, provincial, sadly, shop, suburban, tedious, vestry
«O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Jealousy
| Keywords:
eyed, feeds, green-eyed, green-eyed monster, green, jealousy, meat, meats, mock, monster, the green-eyed monster
«Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past; which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon As done: perseverance, dear my lord, Ke»
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