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«The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see -- every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.»
«Just for a word - 'neutrality', a word which in wartime has so often been disregarded, just for a scrap of paper - Great Britain is going to make war.»
Author: Theobald Theodor Von Bethmann-Hollweg
(Chancellor, Politician)
| Keywords:
Britain, disregarded, Great Britain, scrap, scraps, wartime
«The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.»
«Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.»
Author: Simone de Beauvoir
(Writer)
| About:
Retirement
| Keywords:
heap, holiday, prolonged, rejection, retirement, scrap, scraps
«The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
heap, lets, prescribe, prescribes, scrap, scraps, the Wrecks, tow, towed, wreck, wrecking
«SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. One of these egotists was addressed in the lines following, by Agamemnon Melancthon Peters:Dear Frank, that scrap-book where you boast You keep a record true Of every kind of peppered roast That's made of you;Wherein you paste the printed gibes That revel round your name, Thinking the laughter of the scribes Attests your fame;Where all the pictures you arrange That comic pencils trace -- Your funny figure and your strange Semitic face --Pray lend it me. Wit I have not, Nor art, but there I'll list The daily drubbings you'd have got Had God a fist.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addressed, address book, Agamemnon, arrange, attest, attested, attesting, attests, boast, collect, comic, comic book, comic books, compile, edited, egotist, egotists, employ, frank, have got, lend, name and address, paste, pasted, peppered, peppers, printed, read between the lines, revel, revels, roast, scrap, scraps, scribes, Semitic, small print, trace
«I think it's both good ethics and good economics to scrap this notion that we can fight a war on terror and give rich folks like me a tax cut. It amounts to class warfare.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
amounts, class war, class warfare, cutting taxes, economics, ethics, scrap, scraps, tax cut, tax cuts, warfare
«The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ailment, clod, feverish, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, life force, mighty, recognized, scrap, scraps, selfish, thoroughly, thrown, worn, worn out
«Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
approaching, companies, pile, public service, public works, recycle, recycled, recycling, retirement, scrap, scraps
«The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
| About:
Art,
Emotion
| Keywords:
all over, paper, passing, receptacle, receptacles, scrap, scraps, shape, spider, spider web, web, webs
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