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axes believe comedic drama good grinding prefer prose sharper writer
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. Gore Vidal
axes america people
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. Bill Maher
axes coal fed few handle mills mines nor thousands visualize whose work
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp. Louis MacNeice
axes east west
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted. Jared Diamond
axes cylinders gravity
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis. Archimedes
axes two legs
One of the things I'm likely to start building in my shop is a vehicle wherein each wheel has basically a flight-simulator base as its suspension. It's known as a hexapod; it's basically a tripod but each leg is two pistons. So you have six axes of freedom on it. This will be something that can not only do what lowriders do, but shorten or extend its wheelbase and jump forwards, backwards, or from one side to the other. In an off-road situation it could be rolling at speed toward a ravine and then leap across it. Jamie Hyneman
axes space people
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of debates by seeking other dichotomies more appropriate than, or simply different from, the conventional divisions. All dichotomies are simplifications, but the rendition of a conflict along differing axes of several orthogonal dichotomies might provide an amplitude of proper intellectual space without forcing us to forgo our most comforting tool of thought. Stephen Jay Gould
axes ice snow
I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns. Ernest Shackleton
axes iran korea
States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. George W. Bush
useless adaptability term
In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. Bill Bryson
use want might
If Facebook gets your entire social graph, you don't necessarily want to share everything with your entire social graph. You might wanna parse that social graph. So there's a company called PASS that is a private social network that I personally use for my friends and my family. Ashton Kutcher
use instruments creator
Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. Antoine Lavoisier
use professional-competence philosopher
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery. Bertrand Russell
useful
That was a very useful thing, and is something that was very much appreciated. Ken Leavitt
use retiring
I never use that word, retire. B. B. King
use fuel feels
When you feel humiliated or things like that, you either use it as fuel to change or you get covered by it. Diane von Furstenberg
use fronts
You don't have to just do what's planned, you can take what's immediately in front of you and use that. Dexter Fletcher
used composer stills
Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. Dhani Harrison
grind highest mirror programs scoring ways
I think in a lot of ways our two programs mirror each other. We're not the highest scoring teams, but we can grind it out if we have to.
grinding winning
I was grinding like I was winning the tournament. Gary Player
grind hang hopefully pick prettiest tough
He's a tough player, especially on this kind of surface. I just had to hang in there, try and grind him down. It wasn't the prettiest tennis, hopefully I can pick up on it. Lleyton Hewitt
grinding stay tide top turn
We've got to keep grinding and stay on top of it. . . . The tide will turn for us, and we'll get it going. It's right around the corner.
grind left needs tackle
Grind out your left tackle and then put him in there and tell him he needs to play better. Levi Jones
grind personal
I don't have any personal ax to grind here. John Ashcroft
grind rules stronger team
With the new rules he's going to score. Still, I'll take some of the grind and some of the front-of-the-net play that we have in our guys, and I think it's just made us a deeper, stronger team in that sense. Lindy Ruff
grind process enjoy
Instant gratification is so overrated. It's about the process. It's the difficulty. It's the grind of all of it that you better enjoy. That's what makes it great. Bob Myers
grind mills irish-proverbs
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. Charles A. Beard