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Letter "M" » motions
«We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.»
Author: Max Lerner
(Columnist, Politician)
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Clocks
| Keywords:
ceaselessly, chronology, clock, Dead Man, decades, dry, dry run, dry season, internal, motions, outer, rate, run dry, run on, The Tick, tick, ticking, ticks, timekeeper
«Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.»
«To excite in us tastes, odors, and sounds I believe that nothing is required in external bodies except shapes, numbers, and slow or rapid movements. ... if ears, tongues, and noses were removed, shapes and numbers and motions would remain, but not od»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
motions, Movements, odors, rapid, shapes, slow motion
«Rome... at its most decadent, had never thought of hiring an actor to go through the motions of being an emperor while the Praetorian Guard ruled.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| Keywords:
actor, decadent, emperor, Emperor of Rome, go through, guard, hiring, motions, praetorian, Praetorian Guard, Rome, ruled
«OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes. All acting is simulation, and the word _simulation_ is from _simia_, an ape; but in opera the actor takes for his model _Simia audibilis_ (or _Pithecanthropos stentor_) --the ape that howls.The actor apes a man --at least in shape; The opera performer apes and ape.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
howls, motions, postures, simulation, simulations
«The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils, The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted: - Mark the m»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
affections, Concord, dull, Erebus, m, mark, motions, moved, Ms., Ms, sounds, spoils, stratagem, stratagems, The M, trusted
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