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Letter "S" » sit down
«Playing Shakespeare is so tiring. You never get a chance to sit down unless you're a king.»
Author: Josephine Hull
(Actress)
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Actors and acting
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play down, Shakespeare, sit down, tiring
«Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.»
«Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
abysses, humbly, notion, preconceived, preconceived notion, sit down
«Somebody said to me, ''But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.'' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ''Now, let's write a swimming pool.''»
Author: Paul McCartney
(Musician, Singer)
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anti, huge, literally, materialistic, myth, pool, sit down, swimming, swimming pool
«Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.»
«One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, / There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? / And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.»
«She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.»
«People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if I have done the hardest possible day's work, and then come to sit down in a corner and eat my supper comfortably --why, then I don't think I deserve any reward for my hard day's work --for am I not now at peace? Is not my supper good?»
«No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.»
«Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending-sit down.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
ending, endings, grammatical, sentence, sentenced, sit down
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