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I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
Charles Jencks
Art
Architecture
Car
Become
Down
Parity
Park
Fact
Perfect
Inspired
Parks
Between
Most
Piece
Pieces
Wrote
Because
Been
Site
Just
Artists
In Fact
Should
Working
Sculpture
Things
Soon after the 1997 election, I argued that there was no inverse law of political gravity which said that everything which went down had to come back up.
Charles Kennedy
Law
Political
Election
Down
Back
Back Up
Everything
Inverse
Argued
Had
Soon
Come
Said
Up
After
Which
Gravity
The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
Charles Koch
Great
Innovation
Money
Competition
Try
Country
Down
Way
Ours
Horrible
More
New
Like
Make
Because
Successful
Less
Companies
Whole
Company
Keep
Now
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Charles Lamb
Disappointment
Feeling
Down
No-One
Excite
Puts
Without
Always
Curiosity
Newspapers
Ever
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell
Water
Sometimes
Down
Worn
Projecting
Slightly
Ancient
Above
More
Shallow
Bottom
Observed
Feet
Parts
Piles
Surface
Than
Wooden
Where
Lakes
Depth
Mud
Many
Swiss
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.
Charles Perrault
Made
Sit
Down
Cinderella
Wax
Easily
Obliged
Foot
Had
He
Putting
Been
Fitted
Very
Little
Found
Her
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
Charles Platt
Win
Political
Hacker
Down
Approval
Threat
Ritual
Up
Cracking
Officials
Public
Age-Old
Public Officials
Who
Playing
We couldn't buy Google on the IPO, but I knew I wanted to own it. I was gonna go big. It came out and went down a bit. I got distracted by something and didn't get in.
Charles Schwab
Buy
Google
Big
Own
Down
Bit
Out
Distracted
Something
Knew
Got
Came
Go
Get
Wanted
Gonna
Just because a stock is down doesn't mean it's a great buy.
Charles Schwab
Buy
Great
Down
Because
Stock
Just
Just Because
Mean
The decision to work with Marvel for a while isn't any sort of denigration of DC. I had a fantastic time there, I was treated extremely well, I have strong positive feelings about all of my editors and the DC universe of characters, and I look forward to hopefully working with them at some point down the road.
Charles Soule
Positive
Work
Time
Strong
Decision
Feelings
Down
Universe
Extremely
Characters
Hopefully
Some
About
Marvel
Point
Had
Road
Look
Well
Sort
Editors
Any
While
Them
Fantastic
Working
Down The Road
Forward
Treated
I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.
Charles Soule
Work
Love
Hope
Time
Business
Law
Practice
Building
Own
Down
Nine
Nine Months
Months
Spent
High
High Level
See
Seems
My Own
More
Never
Never Stop
Over
Built
Comics
Doing
Been
Up
Than
Decade
Same
Quite
Just
Quite A While
Stop
Same Time
After
While
Little
Working
Premature
Level
Shut
When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make her an attorney. Make her charming and fun, not weighed down by the various things life will throw at her. Give her a vibrant social life.
Charles Soule
Life
Me
Will
Few
Down
Back
Immediately
Solo
Possibly
About
Give
Charming
Various
Marvel
Throw
Take
Weighed
Head
Attorney
Make
Vibrant
Social
Social Life
Fun
Series
Her
Things
Bringing
Have we been going up and down in business, and are those round about us as yet unaware of our Christian character? Have we never spoken to them the Word of Life? Lord, arouse us to a deep concern for all with whom we come in contact from day to day.
Charles Spurgeon
Life
Day
Character
Business
Word
Down
Christian
Our
Those
Unaware
About
Never
Contact
Spoken
Day-To-Day
Come
Concern
Arouse
Lord
Been
Up
Up And Down
Going
Them
Us
Deep
Whom
Round
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in front of the fairly new black and white television, watching a grainy image of a man in a white suit climbing down a ladder. It was the first moon landing, and I became a sort of spaceman, as many kids were.
Charles Stross
Morning
Man
Moon
Black
Black And White
Parents
First
Ladder
White
Down
Television
Kids
Some
New
Hour
Fairly
Sort
Became
Climbing
Were
Up
Front
Being
Landing
Many
Sat
Image
Earliest
Watching
Suit
I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn't right. She's cool, but it just wasn't right.
Charli XCX
Me
Song
Made
Big
Down
Something
Feature
Could
Like
She
Passed
Up
Offered
Artist
Just
Turned
Cool
Many
Aguilera
Right
Thing
I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.
Charlie Adam
People
Down
Recognised
More
Scottish
Get
Holidays
Who
Street
For lack of a better word, acting is therapeutic. You really are breaking down barriers, exorcising demons and finding more out about yourself.
Charlie Bewley
You
Yourself
Better
Word
Down
Out
Finding
About
More
Demons
Lack
Breaking
Really
Acting
Therapeutic
Barriers
Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.
Charlie Brooker
Will
Fire
Down
Our
Sun
Hopefully
Threat
Some
Something
Come
Unite
Species
We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'
Charlie Brooker
News
Sit
Down
Think
About
Could
Look
How
Episode
Pages
I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
Charlie Daniels
God
Time
Me
Thank God
Long
Long Time
Down
Mine
Had
Columbia
He
Taken
Road
Over
Come
Nashville
Been
Friend
Thank
Did
Getting
Wanted
Anywhere
Bob
Asked
Really
I just sit down at the piano and rattle it off.
Charlie Haden
Sit
Down
Rattle
Piano
Off
Just
I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.
Charlie Kaufman
Down
Find
Some
Written
Written Down
Ideas
Very
Places
Them
Organized
I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.
Charlie McDermott
Time
Class
Writing
School
Random
Before
Nothing
Down
Lasted
Back
Out
High
Would
Would-Be
Pretty
High School
Only
Stuff
Daydreaming
Like
Years
Moved
Stories
Much
Two
The whole thing with the Rick James story sketch and the Prince story sketch - I recounted my past, you know? - and that's what I was doing. It's not like I sat down and said I want to come up with a great story about Rick James. That stuff really happened.
Charlie Murphy
Great
You
Past
Down
About
Stuff
Great Story
Come
Like
Prince
Know
Said
Doing
Up
Want
James
Happened
Story
Sketch
Really
Rick
Sat
Whole
Thing
A comic's like anybody else - he does what he does to support himself and feed his family. But if a comic says the wrong thing, there's a chance the audience will want to take you down.
Charlie Murphy
Family
You
Will
Wrong Thing
Down
Else
Says
Take
He
Feed
Wrong
Support
Like
Himself
Audience
Does
Comic
His
Anybody
Anybody Else
Want
Thing
Chance
There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.
Charlie Pierce
People
Will
Past
Down
Way
Lock
Security
Boston
Town
Houses
Tighten
Covers
Up
Theater
Race
Miles
Marathon
Now
Travels
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