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«How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?»
«A noble space, unlike any other of our time, for it is both strong and delicate. It seems to call at once for a Boeing 747 and for a string quartet.»
«Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.»
«DNA is an abbreviation for deoxyribonucleicantidisestablishmentarianism, a complex string of syllables.»
«Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus and string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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Editor,
Humanist,
Priest)
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Keywords:
gloss,
glosses,
in the same breath,
piling,
relevant,
self-satisfied,
Sisyphus,
six hundred,
string
«A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alas,
fame,
magic,
Noisier,
noisiest,
noisy,
proud,
string,
The Magic
«For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.»
«After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.»
«However distant my people may be, I draw them to me just as we pull a bird to us with a string tied to its foot,I love devotion.»
«Harp not on that string.»