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Letter "P" » pea
«I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.»
«It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.»
Author: Neil Armstrong
(Astronaut)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
blotted, blotted out, giant, pea, planet Earth, put up, struck, thumb
«A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.»
«Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.»
«Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close in»
Author: Neil Gaiman
(Children's author, Comics writer, Journalist, Novelist, Screenwriter)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
close in, forming, Have You, looked, patterns, pea, peas, pod, pods, snowflake, snowflakes
«ABDICATION, n. An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne.Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation. For that performance 'twere unfair to scold her: She wisely left a throne too hot to hold her. To History she'll be no royal riddle -- Merely a plain parched pea that jumped the griddle. --G.J.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abdication, attested, attesting, attests, griddle, high temperature, Isabella, jumped, pea, riddle, scold, scolded, scolding, sovereign, Spanish, temperature, temperatures, unfair, wagging
«An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas in the same pod»
«Here are sweet-peas, on tip-toe for a flight:/ With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white,/ And taper fingers catching at all things, / To bind them all about with tiny rings.»
«I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.»
«I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.»
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