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«I think we ought to let him hang there, let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.»
«Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.»
Author: John Huston
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
actress, inferiority, inferiority complex, insist, noses, screw, The Actress, twist
«The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.»
Author: Laurence Leamer
| Keywords:
helping hand, outstretched, outstretches, palm, twist, wrist, wrists
«Say anything you like, but don't say that I 'like' to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch. Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs. And get drunk.»
Author: Mabel Normand
(Actress)
| Keywords:
bitch, Mary, Pickford, pinch, prissy, Say Anything, twist
«The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.»
Author: Thomas Merton
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Love,
Reflection
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«I know you lawyers can, with ease, twist words and meanings as you please»
«Oliver Twist has asked for more!»
«So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.»
«No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf 's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.»
«The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
cheat, endeavors, make water, persecution, rope, run up, twist
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