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prop up
«There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t»
Author: Maxwell Anderson
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
Bethlehem, In t, prop, prop up, sill, spring water, stick on
«The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.»
Author: Reese Witherspoon
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting
| Keywords:
actors, necessarily, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, role, transforming, true to
«I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them; you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.»
«If someone wants to be a cartoonist, let's see him develop his own strip instead of taking over the duties of someone else's. We've got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. If a cartoonist isn't good enough to make it on his own work, he has no business being in the newspaper.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
cartoonist, cartoonists, comic, comic strip, Comic strips, corpses, Duties of, good enough, on his own, propped, propping, props, prop up, strip, taking over
«Formerly, his heart had been as a locked casket with its treasure inside; but now the casket was empty, and the lock was broken. Left groping in darkness, with his prop utterly gone, Silas had inevitably a sense, though a dull and half-despairing one, that if any help came to him it must come from without; and there was a slight stirring of expectation at the sight of his fellow-men, a faint consciousness of dependence on their goodwill.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
casket, caskets, dependence, despairing, expectation, faint, formerly, groped, grope for, groping, inevitably, in darkness, lock, locked, prop, propped, propping, props, prop up, Silas, slight, stirring
«The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
All Over Me, bar, bucket, buckets, couch, Couched, couches, couching, drank, drove, Drunk driving, every year, hit home, I Woke Up, propped, propping, props, prop up, the bar, twenty-two, vomit, vomited, vomiting, vomit up, walk-up, whistle, whistled, whistles, whistling, woke
«Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them.»