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«To the sound itself the conductor adds the italics and punctuation of gesture, of strained arms, of startling tautness of the shoulders, of brisk nod, of hands flung apart in some wild appeal to the universe.»
Author: Christopher Andreae
| Keywords:
brisk, conductor, conductors, flung, gesture, nod, punctuation, strained, tautness
«Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.»
Author: Julie Burchill
(Columnist)
| Keywords:
inappropriate, punctuation, punctuation mark, response, successfully
«In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.»
«The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.»
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
| Keywords:
anniversaries, anniversary, closing, one after another, punctuation
«They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.»
«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
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adults, childish, clarity, devils, get rid of, goblin, goblins, Gods Themselves, identity, No Angel, obsolete, openly, Or logic, psychology, punctuation, quench, quenches, rebellion, redeem, The Family, The Gods Themselves, The Witches, thirst, witches, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns
«Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers»
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
(Writer)
| About:
Suicide
| Keywords:
artistic, careers, punctuation, punctuation mark, suicide
«Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
add to, bounding, exuberance, grammar, meter, meters, punctuation, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, tons
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