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Letter "V" » Venus
«She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.»
«For an actress to be a success she must have the face of Venus, the brains of Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros»
Author: Ethel Barrymore
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About:
Actors and acting,
Success
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Keywords:
actress,
Brains,
figure,
hide,
Juno,
Macaulay,
Minerva,
rhinoceros,
terpsichore,
The Actress,
The Face of,
Venus
«It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.»
«But for any writer worthy of the name there are moments during the writing process when the rest of the planet might as well have gone to Venus. And those moments are not for sale.»
«Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.»
«Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.»
Author: Emma Goldman
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Keywords:
comments,
Don,
Don Juan,
elopement,
Juan,
moans,
moonlight,
propriety,
rope,
Songs of,
Venus,
yardstick
«Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
apologize,
clothing,
indecorous,
nymph,
nymphs,
Sculptor,
specimen,
specimens,
Venus,
womanhood
«GRACES, n. Three beautiful goddesses, Aglaia, Thalia and Euphrosyne, who attended upon Venus, serving without salary. They were at no expense for board and clothing, for they ate nothing to speak of and dressed according to the weather, wearing whatever breeze happened to be blowing.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
Aglaia,
Ate,
attended,
blowing,
board,
breeze,
clothing,
Euphrosyne,
goddesses,
salary,
serving,
Thalia,
Venus
«In the absence of the planet Venus, who has gone on business to the Horse Guards.»
«Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.»
Author: Jack Handy
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Writer)
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About:
Ambition
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Keywords:
ambition,
bother,
flytrap,
frog,
plant,
sitting,
some other,
teeth,
The Frogs,
tiny,
Venus