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A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.
Lucy Larcom
Friendship
Impossible
Lose
Fathom
Ourself
Would
Something
Mystery
He
Him
Because
Always
Dearest
Were
Friend
Chief
Which
Us
Zest
Beloved
All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.
Piers Anthony
You
Sense
Fathom
All Things
Make
How
Just
Things
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
Bjarke Ingels
You
Brilliant
Sense
Fathom
Something
Fact
No Sense
Mortals
Makes
Understandable
Banal
Just
Ordinary
Explain
Mean
Might
Means
Actually
Necessarily
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.
Bryan Batt
Beautiful
Strength
Women
Think
Beneath
Fathom
Possess
Steely
Veneer
Understand
Lot
Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.
Chris Carter
Together
Fans
Think
Fathom
Say
Characters
See
About
Through
Write
Like
Audience
Itself
Cannot
Them
Show
Even
Why
Imagine
One of the things that I cannot fathom is young actors who will not audition and won't read.
Daniel Radcliffe
Will
Young
Fathom
One Of The Things
Read
Audition
Young Actors
Cannot
Who
Actor
Things
I'm really interested in the new nonfiction. I think the hyper-digital culture has changed our brains in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
David Shields
Culture
Think
Changed
Fathom
Our
Ways
We Cannot
New
Nonfiction
Brains
Begin
Cannot
Interested
Really
Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
Fanny Crosby
Dark
Ocean
Fathom
Waves
Where
Grandeur
Mighty
Sweep
Deep
To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.
Garry Shandling
Funny
You
Experience
Looking
Stage
Fathom
Everyone
Top
See
Onto
Thrown
Lights
Until
Talking
Because
Go
Manage
Cannot
Place
Them
Even
Actually
Start
Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom.
James Buchan
Best
Past
Difficult
Fathom
Arab
Emerged
Inspiration
Attacks
Observers
New
Most
Known
Islamic
Least
Years
Iranian
Revolutionary
York
New York
In The Past
Who
Washington
Bin
Believed
The young Steve Jobs had a hard time articulating something that didn't exist. He could see it, taste it, knew what it felt like, but he didn't have all the language because it hadn't been invented yet. People didn't fathom the personal computer on a mass produced level.
Joshua Michael Stern
Time
People
Language
Young
Fathom
Jobs
See
Something
Invented
Could
Computer
Had
He
Knew
Mass
Like
Steve
Steve Jobs
Because
Felt
Been
Exist
Articulating
Personal
Taste
Produced
Hard
Hard Time
Level
Every event, whether they're positive or negative, shapes us. And sometimes, events happen that we couldn't even fathom.
Julie Payette
Positive
Events
Sometimes
Negative
Every
Fathom
Shapes
Happen
Whether
Us
Even
Event
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
Kate Bernheimer
Love
Joy
Fathom
Frank
Williams
Bernard
John
Writers
Adult
Anne
Over
Tales
Until
Reader
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Years
Began
May
Influence
You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.
Ken Robinson
Life
You
Yourself
Important
Too
Fathom
Possible
Inside
More
Uncertainty
Economic
Recreate
Lead
Talents
Look
Make
Sort
Passions
Times
Than
Want
Create
Really
Your
Deep
Deep Inside
Ever
Downturn
The thought of losing Ted Stevens, a man who was known to business and community leaders, Native chiefs and everyday Alaskans as Uncle Ted, is too difficult to fathom. He truly was the greatest of the Greatest Generation.
Lisa Murkowski
Man
Business
Generation
Losing
Thought
Uncle
Community
Difficult
Too
Everyday
Fathom
He
Leaders
Known
Greatest
Greatest Generation
Truly
Chiefs
Native
Who
Ted
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
Lorrie Fair
History
Sports
Women
Country
Before
Fathom
Sold-Out
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Over
Going
Stadiums
The History Of
Biggest
Event
Ever
Playing
I appreciate our men and women in uniform so much. They are the real heroes. I can't fathom the selflessness involved in serving our country.
Pat McAfee
Women
Heroes
Men
Men And Women
Country
Fathom
Our
Involved
Real
Selflessness
Uniform
Much
Serving
Appreciate
I just can't fathom this fame thing; I'm a total newbie.
Ransom Riggs
Fathom
Total
Fame
Fame Thing
Just
Thing
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Richard Baker
People
Sunrise
Impossible
Moon
Beauty
Universe
Fathom
Magnificence
Marvel
Magnitude
Most
Surrounds
Often
Us
Full
Full Moon
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence.
Seth Shostak
Life
Nature
Build
Swimming
Consider
Fathom
Earth
Signal
Thousand
Thousand Years
Able
Life Forms
Laws
Only
Arisen
Years
Years Ago
Close
Soaring
Forms
Billion
Species
Presence
Four
Hardware
Last
I don't understand 'The Only Way Is Essex' and 'Made in Chelsea': the way they pretend there's no camera. I cannot fathom the attraction.
Shaun Evans
Made
Fathom
Way
Pretend
Only
Attraction
Understand
Chelsea
Camera
Cannot
You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.
Sloane Crosley
You
Strange
Beauty
Fathom
Possibly
Facial
Until
Felt
Exhilarating
Tingle
Treatment
At thirteen, I accompanied my mother to the Hawaiian Islands. There, for the first time, I saw the wonder of a steamship and the vastness of the ocean. From that time on, I was eager to acquire the knowledge of the West and to fathom the mysteries of nature.
Sun Yat-sen
Time
Nature
Knowledge
Mother
Mysteries
First
Ocean
Fathom
Saw
Hawaiian
Vastness
First Time
Islands
Accompanied
West
Wonder
Acquire
Eager
Thirteen
I can't fathom writers married to writers and musicians married to musicians. There's your enemy in bed beside you.
T. C. Boyle
You
Musicians
Enemy
Fathom
Married
Beside
Writers
Bed
Your
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
William Dampier
Morning
Water
Half
Fathom
Ran
Saw
Anchored
Clean
Opening
August
Shore
Sand
Land
Miles
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