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Letter "S" » sunset
«Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.»
Author: Adriaan Kortlandt
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
chimpanzee, chimpanzees, colors, forest, gaze, my supper, particularly, pawpaw, picking, pickings, retire, retires, sunset, sunsets, supper, suppers
«Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship or statesmanship to a formula.»
Author: Dr. Louis Orr
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
arithmetic, formula, reduce, statesmanship, sunset
«Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
| Keywords:
brilliance, comet, Comets, fleeting, fleets, lovelier, lovely, marriage, pleasures, sensual, sunset, sunsets, The Fleet, tranquility
«Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love»
«Mission Revival red-tiled roofs glowing carmine in the sunset.»
«PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abdomen, appareled, black sheep, bright blue, ceremony, dyed, Gha, hideously, omit, presentable, sunset, tails
«Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea»
«Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
distinct, fashioned, for instance, instance, nowadays, old fashioned, old hand, provincialism, sunset, sunsets, talks, temperament
«Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the North-west died away; / Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz bay.»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
bay, blood-red, Cadiz, North West, reeking, reeks, Saint Vincent, sunset, to the north
«Some may try and tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning, and every sunset is merely the latest milestone on a voyage that never ends. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming. Emerson was right: America is the land of tomorrow.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
Emerson, latest, milestone, milestones, New Era, overlook, sunset, voyage
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