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«It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.»
«I once made the mistake of telling someone that I always wanted to be a barrister - and I got a pitying look, flollowed by an article along lines 'the poor little tart thinks she could get a proper job, but look at the way she photographs'»
«In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses»
Author: Calvin Trillin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
article, attempts, bizarre, concoct, presses, satirically, the article
«I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike»
«HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appetite, article, cage, catholicity, chiefly, delicacies, delicacy, dicky, esteemed, fowl, hog, illustrate, illustrated, illustrating, in chorus, in full, Jews, melody, remarkable, resemblance, respected, Rockefeller, scientific name, serving, songster, The Cage, the Chorus
«In my experience, only third-rate intelligence is sent to Legislatures to make laws, because the first-rate article will not leave important private interests go unwatched to go and serve the public for a beggarly four or five dollars a day, and a mi»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
article, beggarly, Legislatures, rate of interest, third rate
«It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood, and always we are fishing up some wonderful article out of that pond; until, by and by, we begin to suspect that the biography of the one foolish person we know is, in reality, nothing less than the miniature paraphrase of the hundred volumes of the Universal History.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
article, Back To Reality, biography, by and by, despised, fishing, infer, inferred, infers, miniature, paraphrase, paraphrases, pond, recollections, rich person, tame, volumes
«How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accursed, article, enlightened, estimation, impurities, impurity, Italy, Romanist, Spain, wedded
«I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make be the difference of price what it may»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American, article, Articles of, citizen, foreign, manufacture, manufactured, manufactures, Manufacturing, price, purchase, purchases, purchasing, resolution, the article, The Purchase