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«The pseudonymous perpetrator of America's only unsolved airline hijacking [is] a folk hero as shadowy as Deep Throat and as morally troublesome as Jesse James.»
Author: David Gates
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
airline, airlines, folk, folk hero, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, James, Jesse, Jesse James, morally, perpetrator, perpetrators, pseudonymous, shadowy, throat, troublesome, unsolved
«Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction»
«Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her»
«They have a disease of the throat.»
«There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
blare, blaring, brass, crash, cymbal, cymbals, guts, practicality, supported, throat, trained
«RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and such of the unjust as have not procured shelter by evicting them. In the lines following, addressed to an Emperor in exile by Father Gassalasca Jape, the reverend poet appears to hint his sense of the improduence of turning about to face Retribution when it is talking exercise:What, what! Dom Pedro, you desire to go Back to Brazil to end your days in quiet? Why, what assurance have you 'twould be so?'Tis not so long since you were in a riot, And your dear subjects showed a will to fly at Your throat and shake you like a rat. You know That empires are ungrateful; are you certain Republics are less handy to get hurt in?»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
addressed, assurance, brazil, brimstone, come in handy, DOM, Dom Pedro, emperor, empires, exile, fire and brimstone, firing line, handier, Handy, hint, hints, jape, Long line, Pedro, procured, retribution, retributions, Reverend, riot, shelter, showed, subjects, talk show, throat, ungrateful
«Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.»
«The brazen throat of war had ceased to roar, / All now was turned to jollity and game,/ To luxury and riot, feast and dance.»
«Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.»
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
armed, bigotry, claw, clawing, cling, condemned, fateful, ghosts, grapple, grappled, grappling, perpetual, prejudice, shade, shades, superstition, tenaciously, The Throat, throat, tooth, unceasingly
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