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american-novelist baker cheek columns light poet russell steady tongue verse writes
Russell Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse - with tongue in cheek and a steady hand. Thomas D'Evelyn
american-novelist certain job success
This is odd, but there are certain things that are really embarrassing to talk about - one is my job and the success that I've had in it, and the other is money. Rick Moody
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That gentleman will call the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I think they're scared of him. They're merely professional killers; he's in advertising! Robert Ludlum
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A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. Mario Puzo
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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. Amy Tan
american-novelist certain decision
You're certain to get a decision in a trial. John Barth
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
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You have to have that organizational principle behind the song. Tom Verlaine
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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Baker threw the ball great. He pitched very well in some big games. Ron Gardenhire
bakery cakes costumes dressed native performed thank week
At the end of the week the villagers wanted to thank us, so they had a party, the bakery made cakes and the villagers dressed in native costumes and performed traditional dances.
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It is our hope that if we are able to negotiate a sale, we will be able to work with the new owners to hire the employees. ... We don't have anything within the company for the bakery employees to transfer to.
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For my fragrance, I knew I wanted something sweet but with a different side to it. I have a lot of vanilla notes and bakery shop scents, but then I also have muskier notes that make it a bit edgier. It's fun but also sophisticated. Bethany Mota
bakery kids
Homeboy Bakery is an alternative to kids who have found themselves, regrettably, in gangs and want to redirect their lives. Greg Boyle
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My kids are always in the kitchen with me - I bring them to the bakery and let them decorate cakes, and they also try to help me and my wife, Lisa, cook dinner at night. Buddy Valastro
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Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking. Buzz Osborne
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I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek - I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. Mahatma Gandhi
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I hate when people have food in their mouths and they don't swallow before they talk. Like, they store it in their cheek when they talk to you. It drives me nuts. Jessica Lowndes
cheek colder grew half hour pale silence sorrow thy truly
When we two parted / In silence and tears,/ Half broken-hearted / To sever for years, / Pale grew thy cheek and cold, / Colder thy kiss;/ Truly that hour foretold / Sorrow to this. Lord Byron
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I don't understand why people expect tips. In hotels you order food in your room, and it's already more expensive from the room service menu, so it's a cheek to expect a tip on top. I do sometimes reward good service, but it should be at my discretion, and I'm not going to be held to ransom. Bernard Hill
columns express takes three
The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness Winston Churchill
light time
This is the first time that we can see the light at the end of the tunnel.
light individualism granted
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted. Barbara Steele
light play shadow
As paradoxical as it may seem a great sculptor is as much a colourist as the best painter, or rather the best engraver. He plays so skillfully with all the resources of relief, he blends so well the boldness of light with the modesty of shadow, that his sculptures please one, as much as the most charming etchings. Auguste Rodin
light doors snow
There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March Jane Hirshfield
light soul shade
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music. Jan Morris
light tunnels rejection
I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard. Cam Newton
light two principles
The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary. Alan Davies
light darkness
There is light in darkness, you just have to find it. bell hooks
light hands ultrasounds
It's not a big part, ... I wheel in an ultrasound machine and say to Taylor's gynecologist, 'If you have a problem with it, just give it a light tap on the side.' Then they hand me a urine sample, and I put it up to the light and say 'Hmm, looks pretty healthy, but I'll check.' Craig Kilborn
poet sad
Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet Alphonse Lamartine
poet poets today truest
All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful. Wilfred Owen
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry invisible keepsakes
Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. Carl Sandburg
poetry poetry-is barbaric
Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild. Denis Diderot
poetry literature logic
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. Edward Young
poetry poverty instinct
A person born with an instinct for poverty. Elbert Hubbard
poetry wisdom
We've hadour wisdom wrungfrom emotion's spongeand yet it still drips
poetry religion may
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion. Anna Jameson
steady
She was just steady all through the game.
steady
He's just been really steady for us inside.
steady
That's what he does. He's been steady all year.
steady
He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.
tongue should right-words
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. Brigid Brophy
tongue pipe cheeks
When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. Edward Norton
tongue way obscure
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. E. B. White
tongue asparagus rich
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes. Anne Sexton
tongue habitat natural
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. Red Smith
tongue genius excess
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. V. S. Pritchett
tongue hours danger
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. Tacitus
tongue explanation clear
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. Rumi
tongue
Those women like to see their tongues dance. Ray Bradbury
verses
I dabbled in verse and it became my life Patrick Kavanagh