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«Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.»
Author: Ben Nicholas
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
corner, grubby, mile, parade, paraded, parading, routine, street corner
«I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours»
«Officers from the 44th Precinct in the High Bridge section of the Bronx arrested two men in a blue van who were trying to make off with the corner of 161st Street and Jerome Avenue.»
Author: William R. Greer
| Keywords:
Bronx, Jerome, officers, precinct, section, street corner, The Bronx
«And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.»
«For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, / And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, / Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, / In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: / And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
attire, beheld, casement, harlot, street corner, The Twilight, twilight, void of, youths
«(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: / Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) / So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, / I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.»
«A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.»
Author: Bertolt Brecht
| Keywords:
cold-bloodedly, penny, second time, sixpence, street corner, stump, stumps, The Police
«All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
corner, deeds, door, restaurant, revolve, revolves, revolving, ridiculous, street corner, The Restaurant, works
«At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
absurdity, corner, street corner, strike, The Face
«Corner a dog in a dead-end street and it will turn and bite»
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