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«It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.»
Author: David Bailey
(Photographer)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
easing, eating and drinking, for instance, instance, intercourse, occupied, occupy, sexual intercourse
«It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? He shivered a little, remembering some of the new ideas in his scientific books, and the much-cited instance of the Kentucky cave-fish, which had ceased to develop eyes because they had no use for them.»
«In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
| About:
Art,
Ideas
| Keywords:
all of a sudden, El Greco, for instance, Greco, impressionist, Impressionists, instance, Michelangelo, of a sudden, tremble, trembling
«I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.»
Author: Ulysses S. Grant
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
acted, Best interests, conscientious, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, instance, intent
«Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.»
«Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinct, fashioned, for instance, instance, nowadays, old fashioned, old hand, provincialism, sunset, sunsets, talks, temperament
«Is it possible for this boundless creation to be brought into existence by man, if there had been no Divine Principle behind it? For instance, fire is latent in the branches of a tree and in the tree itself. If the branches rub against each other, they may generate a fire which could burn down the tree, branches and all.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
boundless, Branches of, burn down, generate, instance
«Now it so happens in the world that opposed to characters of such persons as he there are characters like mine, for instance. I care as little for the world's opinion as that man cared for what was right. To appear right was enough for him; what I th»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
cared-for, characters, for instance, instance, opposed
«If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
despised, embalm, embalming, embalms, for instance, instance, rail, satire, substituted
«My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.»
Author: Woody Allen
(Actor, Author, Film Director, Screenwriter)
| About:
Luck
| Keywords:
for instance, ill luck, instance, mug, mugged, mugging, mugs, Quaker, Quakers
