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«Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.»
Author: F. J. Raymond
| Keywords:
income, incomes, income tax, income taxes, missed, next, quite, refund, satisfying, shot, tax
«One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.»
«My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets / no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!»
Author: Philip Roth
| Keywords:
bombed, bombing, bombs, bullets, communication, containing, conversation, crossfire, duck, English, English language, gifts, meanings, shoot, shot, the English
«Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they're being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I'm black. I tell them, 'Don't stop now. If I shot somebody you'd mention it.'»
Author: Colin Powell
| Keywords:
any longer, interviewer, long shot, mention, mentioning, progressive, Progressives, shot, stories, talk to, talk to me, The Progressive
«Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.»
«The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.»
«Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
attempting, author, banished, banishes, banishing, motive, narrative, narratives, Order of, plot, plotting, prosecute, prosecuted, prosecuting, shot, The Author
«Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Life,
Solution
| Keywords:
as to, exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, result, shoot for, Shoot Out, shoot up, shot
«There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
exhilarate, exhilarated, exhilarating, Nothing More, result, shoot for, Shoot Out, shoot up, shot, There Is Nothing
«Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.»
Author: Zig Ziglar
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
bad person, convince, doom, dooms, gloom, hang, hang around, lifting, long shot, optimistic, otherwise, precious, pull, pull down, shoot down, shot, surround, Too Short
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