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«People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.»
«New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights»
Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
breathless, come with, Eve, every month, every other, march, moment of silence, nights, noted, passage, pause, The Coming, this evening, twelve
«Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our party, even in those glowing days, the clock was always striking twelve for someone at the height of greatness; and there was never a prince to fetch her back to the happy scene.»
«The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
adventures, compete, deliver, eighteen, emancipate, emancipated, emancipating, enrich, family business, garret, gluttonous, heroic, immortalize, infamous, papa, precocity, prisoner, run away, sublime, the Son, tower, twelve
«Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, / And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.»
«Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
| Keywords:
coincidence, coincidences, consumed, dinners, eighteen, thanksgiving, twelve
«Stop following me, are you following me? That'll get you twelve years at Leavenworth, or eleven years at twelveworth, or five and ten at Woolworth's.»
«There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| Keywords:
erection, erections, pornographic, pornography, twelve
«The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
guiltier, jury, prisoner, sworn, The Jury, The Prisoner, thief, twelve
«The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.»
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