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twinkling
«A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.»
Author: Garson Kanin
(Actor, Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Age,
Longevity,
Questioning
| Keywords:
attributed, longevity, nights, ninety, reckon, reckons, Sat, slept, twinkle, twinkling, worried
«Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none;Look up a second time, and, one by one,You mark them twinkling out with silvery light,And wonder how they could elude the sight!»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
elude, eluded, eludes, eluding, look up, one by one, second sight, second time, silvery, twinkling
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
| Keywords:
advancement, advancements, affluence, be well, conceal, corruption, display, efforts, exceed, fortunes, Gods Themselves, imaginable, Inhabitants, mask, national, number the, ostentation, outward, ruin, small fortune, small number, The Gods Themselves, The Mask, The National, twinkling, vain, vanish, vice
«Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky»
«The sky was clear -- remarkably clear -- and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.»
«And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still such days will come,To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home;When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still,And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill,The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore,And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.»
«To his right walked a huge red-headed man, with broad smile and merry twinkle, whose clothes seemed to be bursting and splitting at every seam, as though he were some lusty chick who was breaking bravely from his shell.»
«Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, / In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.»
«Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| Keywords:
belonging, demanded, earthbound, protesting, remaining, twinkle, twinkling, unfortunately