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«Parents should conduct their arguments in quiet, respectful tones, but in a foreign language. You'd be surprised what an inducement that is to the education of children.»
Author: Judith S. Marin
| About:
Arguments,
Children,
Education,
Parents
| Keywords:
arguments, foreign language, foreign languages, inducement, inducements, respectful, surprised, tones
«I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.»
Author: Kate Chopin
(Author, Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
defenseless, editors, flattery, guise, newspaper, professional, readers, secrets, shocked, surprised
«In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.»
«One day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.»
«My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!»
«It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.»
Author: Edward de Bono
(Psychologist, Writer)
| About:
Humor,
Reason
| Keywords:
involved, perceptions, philosophers, significant, sort out, surprised
«People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
bacilli, bacillus, cholera, comma, commas, comma bacillus, insignificant, stricken, surprised
«Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.»
«Perhaps it is our perennial fate to be surprised by the simultaneity of events, by the sheer extension of the world in time and space. That we are here, prosperous, safe, unlikely to go to bed hungry or be blown to pieces this evening, while elsewhere in the world, right now in Grozny, in Najaf, in the Sudan, in the Congo, in Gaza, in the favelas of Rio....To be a traveler?and novelists are often travelers?is to be constantly reminded of the simultaneity of what is going on in the world, your world and the very different world you have visited and from which you have returned home.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Conscience,
Writing
| Keywords:
blown, congo, elsewhere, extension, Gaza, go to bed, go to pieces, Grozny, in time, Novelists, perennial, prosperous, reminded, returned, Right Now, Right to return, Rio, sheer, simultaneity, Sudan, surprised, The Congo, this evening, time and space, traveler, travelers, unlikely, visited
«People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
cast on, floating, poisoned, surprised, waters
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