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«The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.»
Author: Isadora Duncan
(Dancer)
| Keywords:
affected, ballet, ballets, ballet dancer, dancer, School of, supple, toe
«The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful.»
«Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.»
Author: Samuel Ullman
| Keywords:
cheeks, Cheek to Cheek, emotions, freshness, in red, knees, lips, mind over matter, red, Reds, rosy, see red, springs, state of mind, supple, The Deep, time of life, vigor, youth
«Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions. Trade loves moderation, delights in compromise, and is most careful to avoid anger. It is patient, supple, and insinuating, only resorting to extreme measures in cases of absolute necessity. Trade makes men independent of one another and gives them a high idea of their personal importance: it leads them to want to manage their own affairs and teaches them to succeed therein. Hence it makes them inclined to liberty but disinclined to revolution.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
delights, disinclined, Extreme Measures, inclined, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating, manage, measures, personal liberty, resorting, supple, therein
«Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme, both supple and staccato enough to adapt itself to the lyrical movements of our souls, the undulating movements of ou»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Ambition,
Prose
| Keywords:
lyrical, Movements, musical, poetic, prose, rhyme, rhythm, rhythm and, staccato, supple, The Miracle
«Life is extraordinarily suave and sweet with certain natural, witty, affectionate people who have unusual distinction and are capable of every vice, but who make a display of none in public and about whom no one can affirm they have a single one. There is something supple and secret about them. Besides, their perversity gives spice to their most innocent occupations, such as taking a walk in the garden at night.»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
affectionate, affirm, display, extraordinarily, In the Garden, occupations, perversities, perversity, suave, supple
«And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.»
«Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.»
«Death is the supple Suitor That wins at last It is a stealthy Wooing Conducted first By pallid innuendoes And dim approach But brave at last with Bugles»
«If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender»
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