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«The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.»
«Bring forth the raisins and the nuts Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.»
Author: John Kendrick Bangs
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Writer)
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Keywords:
bring forth,
hallows,
moonlit,
nuts,
raisin,
raisins,
spectre,
strut,
struts,
strutting,
the Spectre
«Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing»
«I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.»
Author: Erica Jong
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Keywords:
baggage,
hungers,
peacock,
peacocks,
pump,
pumping,
pumps,
strut,
struts,
strutting,
tongues,
wet
«The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
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Writer)
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Keywords:
agent,
Big Boys,
Big Picture,
bogus,
ceased,
degraded,
fake,
idealism,
incessant,
incompetence,
Out of This World,
overall,
overalls,
pervasive,
pretentiousness,
shots,
snide,
squabble,
squabbling,
start out,
strut,
struts,
strutting,
The Big Picture,
The Boys,
tricks
«I will not strut around like I own the place»
«Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness to foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures int»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
awakened,
formal,
gestures,
grandeur,
liveliness,
lofty,
solemnity,
sprightlier,
sprightly,
stalk,
stately,
strut,
struts,
strutting
«Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Be a Player,
frets,
fretted,
fretting,
furies,
fury,
heard,
idiot,
no more,
player,
shadow,
signified,
signifying,
sound,
stage,
staged,
strut,
struts,
strutting,
tale,
The Stage,
walking
«Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
frets,
fretted,
fretting,
player,
stage,
strut,
struts,
strutting,
The Stage