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Letter "B" » barreling
«Life barrels on like a runaway train where the passengers change, they don't change anything, you get off someone else can get on.»
«I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.»
Author: Isak Dinesen
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Writer)
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«No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming.»
«If you want to catch a trout, don't fish in a herring barrel»
«There's absolutely no way you can go barreling into second and dump a guy on a double play, like you should do, when you've been fraternizing with him before a game.»
«Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.»
«Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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President)
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«Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.»
«There's an English show I love called Whose Line Is It Anyway? It's all improvisation. Brilliant, quick, clever comics - spontaneity with both barrels. I wish I could do that show.»
Author: Johnny Depp
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Actor)
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Keywords:
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«There is little choice in a barrel of rotten apples.»