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Letter "S" » strike home
«Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.»
«Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.»
Author: Glenway Wescott
(Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
factual, fictive, glow, narration, nervous, strike home
«Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the belfry strikes one; You said you were coming right home from the shop, As soon as your day's work was done»
Author: Henry Clay Work
(Writer)
| Keywords:
belfry, clock, clock in, come home, shop, strikes, strike home, The Belfry
«Take me out to the ball game Take me out with the crowd Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks I don't care if I never come back We will root, root root for the home team If they don't win it's a shame For it's one, two, three strikes you're out At th»
Author: Jack Norworth
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ball game, cracker, crackers, jacks, peanuts, strikes, strike back, strike home, Take Me, The Crowd, Three strikes
«I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.»
«The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
| Keywords:
bonds, breakdown, Breakdowns, compassionate, homes, strikes, strike home, tied, unionize, wildcat, worker
«Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying»
Author: Horace
(Poet)
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lesson, penetrate, penetrated, spoken, strikes, strike home, wit, wounding
«I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples.»
Author: John Updike
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administering, anonymous, Body of, digging, enlightened, filter, filtered, filtering, filters, funds, here and there, honorably, host, magazine, official, patron, patrons, pockets, public-spirited, publication, publications, public funds, scruple, scruples, spirited, strike home, striking
«Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.»
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