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Letter "F" » features
«It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.»
Author: Christopher Lasch
| Keywords:
bourgeoisie, comparison, contemporary, features, obsessed, stupefaction, tribute
«I contend that every woman has the right to feel beautiful, no matter how scrambled her features, or how indifferent her features»
Author: Marie Dressler
(Actress)
| About:
Women
| Keywords:
contend, contended, contends, features, indifferent, scrambled, scrambles
«Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
carved, carved in stone, erased, extraneous, fallacious, features, go by, incorporate, incorporated, incorporates, incorporating, marvelous
«I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.»
Author: Sam Ervin
(Senator)
| Keywords:
civil war, displayed, features, heroism, redeeming, The Civil War, The Watergate, Watergate
«Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features»
Author: Joseph Joubert
(Essayist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
features, intangible, intangibles, invisible, manipulate, manipulated, Manipulating
«I ain't here to argue about his facial featuresOr here to convert atheists into believersI'm just trying to say the way school need teachersThe way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus»
«It was a very tall man, if, indeed, it might be called a man, for the gaunt bones were protruding through the corroding flesh, and the features were of a leaden hue. A winding-sheet was wrapped round the figure, and formed a hood over the head, from under the shadow of which two fiendish eyes, deep set in their grisly sockets, blazed and sparkled like red-hot coals.»
«Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| About:
Laughter
| Keywords:
convulsion, convulsions, distortion, features, inarticulate, incurable, infectious, intermittent
«Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.»
«Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.»
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