#crib

The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#departure #described #hollywood #i #understood

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#i #individual #manners #men #species

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#hbo #homes #million #seen #small

I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel. ↗

— Levon Helm

#country #eating #good #i #like

It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#energies #just #people #prescribe #two

The producers probably won't like this, but I always describe her as Peppermint Patty on acid. ↗

— Mindy Cohn

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It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative. ↗

— Jesse Helms

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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#bodies #book #certain #conceive #concerning