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«A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination»
Author: Hal Borland
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across, Beautiful Thing, block, destination, shovel, shoveling, snowdrift
«Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red»
«Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.»
Author: Ninon de Lenclos
| About:
Actors and acting
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across, actors, come across, larger-than-life, larger, nondescript, ordinary, stage, subjected, The Stage
«And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon my mind! his lips meet mine, and a flood Of sweet fire sweeps across me, so I drown Against him, die, and find death good»
«A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Men and Women,
Relationships
| Keywords:
across, conversation, mere, study, table
«...What I like does tend to be left-field. I feel somehow much more comfortable playing it. I relate more easily than I do when I run across straight roles. I hate the obvious stuff, I just don't respond to it.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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across, comfortable, easily, field, get across, left field, obvious, playing, playing field, relate, respond, roles, running play, run across, somehow, straight, stuff, tend
«A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Conversation
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across, books, conversation, each month, get across, month, month by month, single, study, table, This month, worth
«Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot!»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
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across, admit, differently, drive, mart, marts, owners, parked, parking, parking lot, rivers, shaped, sport, sport utility, sport utility vehicle, station wagon, The Station, utilities, utility, vehicle, wagon, wagons, you-drive
«Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.»
«A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
across, acrostic, Alexandrian, Alexandrians, backward, backward and forward, forward, spells
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