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Letter "P" » place setting
«The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
(Physician, Writer)
| Keywords:
connection, odor, odors, place setting, Polling, recognition, remarkably, repertories, repertory, sending, send off, sign off, smelling
«The day begins to droop, - / Its course is done: / But nothing tells the place / Of the setting sun.»
«The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.»
Author: William Friedkin
(Film Director, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
actors, communicate, director, levels, mood, place setting, take place, The Director
«I have prepared one of my own [timecapsules]. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.»
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
(Film Director)
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capsule, dynamite, go off, gunpowder, of my own, placed, place setting, samples, set off, set to, show off, time capsule
«If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.»
Author: Epictetus
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abide, afterwards, arisen, brow, cherish, laughed, mocked, place setting, reverence, scorn, straightway
«He would be setting up as a man of property next, with a place in the country.»
«If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.»
Author: Les Brown
(Author, Entrepreneur, motivational speaker)
| Keywords:
amaze, gifts, go after, muster, musters, muster up, place setting
«And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, / The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, / To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
acceptable, anointed, anoints, at liberty, Book of, brokenhearted, bruised, bruises, captives, deliverance, delivered, gospel, heal, It Was Written, opened, open sight, place setting, preach, prophet, recovering, The Blind, The Captive, The Prophet
«My job is about the most fun thing I do, but I have a broad set of interests, going places, reading things, doing things.»
«Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Beauty
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bystander, bystanders, decent, graceful, heroic, natural action, natural causes, place setting, The Mark
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