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«The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything.»
Author: Adela Rogers St. Johns
(Journalist, Reporter)
| Keywords:
amounted, arrivals, disaster, liberated, on-the-scene, scene, The Arrival, worthwhile
«Naked I came, and naked I leave the scene, And naked was my pastime in between»
«I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality.»
Author: Jack Nicklaus
(Golfer)
| Keywords:
fade, fade out, First I, Green Grass, images, in focus, In My Head, in practice, landing, landings, previous, scene, sharp, shot, swing, trajectory
«I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.»
«Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.»
«Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| About:
Procrastination
| Keywords:
concerns, fled, mercies, scene, steals, thief, Thief of Time
«The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
court, Nativity, ruled, scene, Supreme Court, Three Wise Men, Virgin, Washington, Wise Men
«Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Happiness,
Love,
Marriage,
Misery,
Relationships
| Keywords:
enjoyments, enlarges, miseries, scene
«I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.»
Author: Orson Welles
| Keywords:
contribute, hint, hinted, hinting, hints, scene, suggestion, theater
«The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| Keywords:
battlefield, battlefields, both, constant, constants, controls, enemies, From Chaos, scene, The Winner, winner
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