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«The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.»
Author: George Mikes
| Keywords:
biological, bore, British, British and, eminent, experiments, originally, quite a, scientists, spoiling, The Eternal
«Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.»
«Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.»
Author: Pauline Kael
(Author, Critic)
| Keywords:
attracted, audiences, bore, drop in, in on, shameful, tempted, Thirty one, Thirty Years
«Rich and rare were the gems she wore, / And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.»
«The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault»
Author: Henry Kissinger
(Political scientist)
| About:
Celebrity
| Keywords:
bore, celebrity, The Nice
«I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
bore, revenge, revenged, revenges, Revenge of, revenging, warn
«No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, 'Because He did, I can forgive you.''»
«Plato was a bore.»
«The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
bore, human existence, in line
«The major contribution of Protestant thought to the knowledge of mankind is its massive proof that God is a bore»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
bore, contribution, major, massive, proof, Protestant, Protestants, The Knowledge
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