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Letter "S" » stuffing
«We manipulate nature as if we were stuffing an Alsatian goose. We create new forms of energy; we make new elements; we kill crops; we wash brains. I can hear them in the dark sharpening their lasers.»
Author: Erwin Chargaff
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About:
Change,
Nature
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Keywords:
alsatian,
cropped,
crops,
elements,
goose,
In The Dark,
laser,
lasers,
manipulate,
manipulated,
Manipulating,
sharpening,
stuffing,
wash
«There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly»
«Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole.»
Author: Philip Howard
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Keywords:
banausic,
bouillabaisse,
fisher,
fishers,
F K,
have on,
Jane,
M. F. K. Fisher,
m,
M F K Fisher,
stuffing
«Every hitter likes fastballs just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's how you feel when (Nolan) Ryan's throwing balls by you.»
Author: Reggie Jackson
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Keywords:
balls,
cream,
fastball,
fastballs,
gallon,
gallons,
hitter,
Into You,
Nolan,
Nolan Ryan,
Ryan,
stuffing,
throwing
«The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.»
«And there?s others like taxidermist! You can?t just go, ?Oh, I was just working at the chip shop, and I just started stuffing animals with sand,? you know? You?ve gotta want to be! ?I want to be a taxidermist! I wanna fill animals with sand. (mimes stuffing an animal) I wanna get more sand into an animal than anybody has ever bloody got in one. I wanna fill a rat with the entire Gobi Desert, so it?s really quite tight.?»
Author: Eddie Izzard
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Actor,
Comedian)
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Keywords:
bloody,
chip,
chipping,
desert,
Gobi,
Gobi Desert,
mime,
mimes,
rat,
sand,
shop,
stuffing,
taxidermist,
tight
«Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of. Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!Biggles: Here they are, lord.Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?Biggles: Yes, lord.»
Author: Monty Python
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Keywords:
accused,
cardinal,
Cardinals,
confess,
counts,
cushion,
cushioned,
cushions,
deed,
divulge,
divulged,
fetch,
fetching,
Ha Ha Ha,
heinous,
heresy,
hurting,
old lady,
old woman,
poke,
poked,
pokes,
poking,
previous,
reject,
stuffing,
The Cardinals,
The Works,
ungodly,
utterance,
Wilde
«Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
alas,
aside,
bones,
chucking,
chucks,
marrow,
preys,
scoop,
scooped,
scooping,
Scoops,
stuffing