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«Since finding out what something is, is largely a matter of discovering what it is like, the most impressive contribution to the growth of intelligibility has been made by the application of suggestive metaphors»
Author: Jonathan Miller
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| Keywords:
application, contribution, discovering, impressive, intelligibility, IS IS, suggestive, suggestive of
«Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things»
Author: Matthew Arnold
(Critic, Poet)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
effective, impressive, mode, widely
«The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.»
Author: William H. McNeill
| Keywords:
History of the, Human behavior, impressive, Islam, offers, surprising
«There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means»
«The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.»
«Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth»
«RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
civilians, distinguishable, factory, farm, foot soldier, foot soldiers, gait, impediments, impressive, Johnson, marching, Martial, recruit, recruited, recruiting, recruits, retreat, spectacle, The Farm, Thompson, uniform
«Quantum mechanics is very impressive. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory yields a lot, but it hardly brings us any closer to the secret of the Old One. In any case I am convinced that He doesn't play dice»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
closer, convinced, dice, hardly, impressive, in any case, not yet, quantum, real thing, The Real Thing, yields
«There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make»
Author: James Matthew Barrie
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| About:
World
| Keywords:
impressive, Scotsman, Scotsmen, sights
«The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
accomplish, achieves, combination, combinations, desired, effect, effected, effecting, eloquent, felicitous, geometrically, impressive, pause, paused, pausing, progressive, Progressives, The Progressive, to that effect
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