#entrance

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me. ↗

— Greta Garbo

#back #bother #doors #elevators #entrances

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure. ↗

— George H. Mead

#before #blocked #cautious #delicacy #entrance

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#entrance #free #market #nothing #which

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#i #i do #large #like #little

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status. ↗

— Ma Jian

#china #confirmation #entrance #grand #new

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#ages #being #entrances #exits #his

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. ↗

— George A. Smith

#entrance #every #evil #freedom #god

The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#beauty #concept #cooperation #entranced #form

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#come #creep #entranced #everywhere #float

Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. ↗

— William Falconer

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