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«Every rose has its thorn:- you never find a woman without pins and needles»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
needles, pinned, pins, pins and needles, pin up, rose, The Pin, thorn
«A smile appeared upon her face as if she'd taken it directly from her handbag and pinned it there.»
«Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.»
Author: Paul Goldberger
| About:
Architecture
| Keywords:
brooch, brooches, Buildings, pinned, structures, The Front
«?Personal history must be constantly renewed by telling parents, relatives, and friends everything one does. On the other hand, for the warrior who has no personal history, no explanations are needed; nobody is angry or disillusioned with his acts. And above all, no one pins him down with their thoughts and their expectations.?»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
above all, Acts, constantly, disillusion, disillusioned, expectations, explanations, hands down, hand down, needed, on the other hand, parents, pinned, pins, pin down, pin up, relatives, renewed, telling, The Pin, warrior
«The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| Keywords:
added, difficulty, expectations, ill, illusions, ill will, One of Us, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on t»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Revolution, counterbalance, counterbalancing, decision making, incentives, peculiarities, peculiarity, pinned, structuring, The American Revolution, The Organization, units
«Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek»
Author: Tom Robbins
(Novelist)
| About:
Angels,
Dancing,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
argued, centuries, cheek, Cheek to Cheek, dancing, philosophers, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
«People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds»
«I sit here and think, with more than a little astonishment, that I have been writing and publishing Science Fiction now for just three-eighths of a century. This isn't bad for someone who only admits to being in his late youth- or a little over thirty, if pinned down.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
admits, astonishment, eighths, pinned, pin down, publishing
«I do not set my life at a pin's fee.And for my soul, what can it do to that,Being a thing immortal as itself?»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
fee, immortal, pin, pinned, pin up, The Pin
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