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«An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.»
Author: Edwin Meese III
| Keywords:
advice, expert, implemented, implementing, implements, like an expert, miles, no show, shows, slid, slides, sliding
«He slides into second with a stand up double.»
«The speeding reader guts a book the way the skillful clean fish. The gills are gone, the tail, the scales, the fins; then the fillet slides away swifly as though fed to a seal.»
«>Rachel, Ross, Pheobe and Joey are outside Monica and Chandlers door< Ross: Okay we will do rock paper scissors to deicde who goes in first. Rachel: Right. Ross: One, Two, Three>Ross does paper, Rachel does scissors and Pheobe does rock< Joey: >waggles his fingers in the air< heh heh! Ross: What is that? Joey: It's fire! It beats everything. Pheobe: Not water balloon! >holds her hand over Joeys< tsh! Joey: Oh yeah. >a note slides out from underneath Monica and Chandlers door< Ross: >reads the note< We know you out there. Joey: >reading the note over Ross' shoulder< Who do you think sent it?»
Author: Friends
| Keywords:
balloon, balloons, first water, hand over, hold water, in the air, joey, Monica, note, Oh Yeah, okay, Rachel, reads, Ross, scissor, scissors, shoulder, slides, sliding door, TSH, underneath, waggle, yeah
«The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.»
«But touch me, and no minister so sore; Whoever offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| Keywords:
hitch, hitched, hitches, offends, rhyme, ridicule, slides, unluckiest
«Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
bottom, bottom fish, current, detect, detecting, detects, drink, eternity, fishing, I go, remains, sandy, shallow, shallower, shallowest, shallows, slid, slides, sliding, stream, streaming, thin, thinned, thinner, thinnest, thinning, thins
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bottom fish, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, detect, detects, fishing, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, occasions, sandy, shallow, slides, stream, sublime, thin
«I regard him as the whitest man I know. He is down on his luck at present owing to the mortgaging of his extensive property at Agendath Netaim in faraway Asia Minor, slides of which will now be shown.»
Author: James Joyce
| Keywords:
Asia, Asia Minor, faraway, minor, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, owing, slides, slide down
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