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struck
«I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.»
«It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.»
Author: Neil Armstrong
(Astronaut)
| About:
Earth
| Keywords:
blotted, blotted out, giant, pea, planet Earth, put up, struck, thumb
«I was watching Ashlee Simpson on Jay's show last night... She was really singing, and I was saying, 'Bring back the lip synch.' ...And it struck me that Ashlee Simpson is a lot like George Bush-because she wouldn't even really be in the big leagues if it wasn't for family connections, and she's in way over her head. And she doesn't know what to do. And she blamed her band.»
Author: Bill Maher
(Actor, Comedian, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Comedy
| Keywords:
band, big league, blamed, bring back, bush, connections, George, George Bush, jay, leagues, lip, lip synch, Simpson, singing, strike back, struck, the Big
«It's amazing how my words, ?I am not determined to do good, but to be good,? from The Person I Don't Have Time To Be have struck me on a deeper level. When I am good, I don't have to try to do good. When I am love, I don't have to worry about coming from love. I simply need to be who I am.»
«In this century, when evil men plot chemical, biological and nuclear terror, a policy of appeasement could bring destruction of a kind never before seen on this earth. Terrorists and terrorist states do not reveal these threats with fair notice in formal declarations. And responding to such enemies only after they have struck first is not self defense. It is suicide. The security of the world requires disarming Saddam Hussein now.»
Author: George Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
appeasement, chemical, defense policy, disarming, Enemy of the state, first century, formal, Hussein, plot, responding, Saddam, Saddam Hussein, self defense, struck, terrorist, terrorists, The First Evil, this century, Threats
«It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, praised, shuttlecock, struck
«I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdity, at first sight, bargain, beforehand, black person, brown, imagined, locks, raven, ravens, struck, The Bargain, The Raven, The Ravens
«It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
challenged, conceptions, fundamental, socialism, struck
