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uncontrollable
«Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.»
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
(Writer)
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advanced, earthly, old woman, tame, uncontrollable, young woman
«There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars...But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too faast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable...It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.»
Author: Kay Jamison
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Against the Grain, carves, clarity, confusion, elation, frequent, frequented, frequenting, frequents, frightened, grain, involved, irritable, loneliness, madness, moving, overwhelming, particular, previously, replaces, shooting, shootings, shooting star, Shooting Stars, terror, tremendous, uncontrollable
«I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.»
Author: Richard Avedon
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uncontrollable
«A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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affluence, as such, Order of, pool, soothing, the West, The Western, uncontrollable, Western
«Dear Lord, thank You for this microwave bounty, even though we don't deserve it. I mean... our kids are uncontrollable hellions! Pardon my French... but they act like savages! Did You see them at the picnic? Oh, of course You did... You're everywhere, You're omnivorous. Oh Lord! Why did You spite me with this family?»
Author: Dan Castellaneta
(Actor, Writer)
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bounties, bounty, French, microwave, omnivorous, pardon, picnic, picnicking, picnics, savages, thank you, The Bounty, uncontrollable
«For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| Keywords:
occupies, role, technological, tribal, uncontrollable
«The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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complicity, reflects, scenario, scenarios, uncontrollable
«Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
coherence, inchoate, twentieth century, uncontrollable
