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clutched
«In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.»
«I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran away. But it always crept on to my lap again, clutched at my clothes. Until I thought, if I could kiss it, whatever in it is my own, perhaps I could s»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
clutched, clutches, clutching, crept, dreamed, evening clothes, lap, ran
«That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.»
Author: Charlie Chaplin
(Comedian, Composer, Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
cane, caning, clutched, clutches, clutching, derby, derby hat, desperate, earnest, fixing, hat, in earnest, landed, predicament, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up, tie, very much
«Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.»
«When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime»
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
clutched, clutches, clutching, dies, die away, lifetime
«Is advertising a profession, like law or medicine? How many new parents clutch their baby to their breast and declare, 'I want this child to grow up to be a media planner'?»
Author: Jef I. Richards
| About:
Advertising,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
clutched, new media, planner, planners
«Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him; he could never let her go again. He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm. He wanted to remain like that for ever, with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.»
«Once I knew only darkness and stillness...my life was without past or future...but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.»
«The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
all star, a little, catch on, catch up with, caught, clutched, clutches, clutching, dust, dusted, dusting, Dust to Dust, harvest, harvested, harvesting, harvests, intangible, intangibles, little, Over the Rainbow, portion, portion out, rainbow, Rainbows, star, starred, starring, The Catch, The Rainbow, the true, True Life, true to life
«Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and penetrate; / Expert beyond experience.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
clutched, clutches, Donne, expert, penetrate
