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«Authorship, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, is an infancy, a pastime, a labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, or a virtue»
Author: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
Art a, authorship, handicraft, handicrafts, infancy, pastime, pursued
«Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.»
«It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.»
«In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.»
Author: John Webster
(Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Greatness,
Motivation
| Keywords:
blown, bubbles, in the air, pastime, pastimes, quest, wanton, wantons
«I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.»
Author: Mark McGwire
(Baseball Player)
| About:
America and Americans,
Baseball
| Keywords:
ballpark, ballparks, Coming out, map, pastime, The map
«As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime»
Author: Philip Stubbes
| About:
Football
| Keywords:
bloody, concerning, murdering, pastime, practise, protest, re-creation, recreation
«In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.»
«Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people»
«Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime / I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.»
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bearable, childish, consideration, inflicts, pastime, referring, undignified
«Art is not a pastime but a priesthood»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
pastime, pastimes, priesthood
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