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Letter "P" » Pretty Things
«It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.»
Author: Brooks Robinson
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
at bats, bat, batted, contract, contracted, contracting, glove, gloved, gloves, last word, loudest, player, Pretty Things, sure thing, The Last Word, The Player
«I really can't deny it, I am who I am. I'm pretty normal. I'm not that smooth type of girl. I run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things... I really don't have it all together.»
Author: Katie Holmes
(Actress)
| About:
Girls,
Simplicity
| Keywords:
all together, deny, normal, Pretty Things, run into, smooth, spill, spilling, spills, trip, type
«I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.»
Author: Kurt Cobain
(Musician, Singer)
| Keywords:
boring, complaining, exciting, pretty much, Pretty Things, Somebody else
«The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.»
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder
(Author)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
folks, organization, organized, organizing, paying, Pretty Things, The Organization
«Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.»
Author: Erica Jong
| Keywords:
endear, endeared, endearing, endears, especially, in fact, lucky, misery, Pretty Things
«It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| About:
Husbands,
Marriage
| Keywords:
from time to time, Pretty Things, witty
«I believe a man is born first unto himself--for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are bor»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
developing, nurseries, nursery, Pretty Things, snatched, tasted
«The Great Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was n»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
devour, horizon, loom, loomed, looming, looms, Pretty Things, soft, threatening, train
«Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around and collect any extra garbage that people might have, like a crumpled napkin, and take that out too. Pretty soon people will want to meet the busy garbage guy.»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
| Keywords:
busy, collect, collects, crumpled, extra, garbage, garbage can, good guy, Good Thing, go around, guy, Meet The, napkin, napkins, party, Pretty Things, take out, Take That
«Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
beautiful, elegant, graceful, handsome, handsomer, handsomest, imagination, not yet, pretty, Pretty Things, rich, speak, yet
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