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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
by Anthony Hecht (Poet, American , born in 1923) keywords: again, best, done, escaped, finally, first, full, fun, had, lies, lines, lot, mystery, nonsense, notice, over, pass, penetrate, return, saying, sense, sounding, stage, through, till, trying , yourself I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.
by Jesse James (Criminal, American , born in 1847) keywords: after, away, because, came, company, did, early, escaped, fight, full, furious, get, had, however, just, knew, look, morning, next, them, time, were , would Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
by Samuel Johnson (Author, English , born in 1709) keywords: cannon, danger, debts, escaped, every, great, little, loud, noise, rattling, scarcely, shot, side, small, without , wound When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
by Samuel Johnson (Author, English , born in 1709) keywords: any, been, calamity, escaped, first, how, much, remembered, suffered , thing Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
by Klaus Kinski (Actor, German , born in 1926) keywords: beat, cannot, escaped, even, fists, heart, hurts, much, run, sometimes, think, try , waits The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
by Niccolo Machiavelli (Writer, Italian , born in 1469) keywords: clearer, escaped, hourglass, life, more, our, sand, see, should , through The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
by Jean Paul (Author, German , born in 1763) topics: Wisdom keywords: clearer, escaped, hourglass, life, more, our, sand, see, should , through The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.
by Cecil Frank Powell (Physicist, British , born in 1903) keywords: atomic, detecting, enabled, escaped, establish, existence, features, forms, had, matter, method, methods, other, particles, particular, photographic, recognition, transient, us , which I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
by Manfred von Richthofen (Aviator, German , born in 1892) keywords: being, call, described, down, escaped, experience, falls, got, had, into, might, only, perhaps, same, shot, skin, time, today, trouble, which , whole And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
by William Scranton (Politician, American , born in 1917) keywords: been, conference, contained, down, escaped, had, incident, island, knew, mile, morning, press, shut, ten, three, time, water , whatever They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.
by Hugh Shelton (Soldier, American , born in 1942) keywords: direction, escaped, felt, fleeing, involved, know, surrounded, went, were, whether , wrong How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
by Logan P. Smith (Writer, American , born in 1865) topics: Success keywords: being, eat, eaten, enough, escaped, got, how, life, more, say, sixty, success, than , years Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
by Joan D. Vinge (Author, American , born in 1948) keywords: being, escaped, fragment, goddess, had, head, here, myth, novel, perfect, somehow, sort, springboard, through, turned, wanted , write At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.
by Ann Wilson (Musician, American , born in 1950) keywords: canada, escaped, fell, followed, go, guy, him, kill, lot, love, men, those, time, want, war , young Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.
by Bob Woodward (Journalist, American , born in 1943) keywords: admitted, americans, apologized, country, early, error, escaped, failure, forgiving, grand, had, his, mistake, nixon, understand , would In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
by Elinor Wylie (Poet, American , born in 1885) keywords: austere, escaped, fear, file, go, masks, merited, none, outrageous, quite, single, smile , years Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.
by Johann Georg Zimmermann (Writer, Swiss , born in 1728) keywords: become, been, escaped, fortune, fortunes, great, little, many, obtain, ruin, ruined, their , want
