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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry Adams
Travel
Own
Everyone
Rule
Carries
He
Himself
His
Taste
Wherever
Inch
Travels
Applying
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller
Work
Good
Great
Communication
Mysteries
Important
Few
Secondary
Those
Must
Only
Except
Obscure
Like
Himself
Great Work
Reader
Inevitably
Perpetuation
Very
Author
Which
Then
Who
Initiated
Necessary
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time
Man
Will
More
He
Come
Know
Him
Himself
Always
Surprise
His
Accomplishments
Than
Again
Consequently
The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
Morning
Impress
Rules
Must
Force
Himself
Learn
Knows
Altogether
His
Again
Them
Night
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker
Life
Today
Yourself
Live
Think
Society
Else
Someone
Tendency
Himself
Always
Accountable
Person
Want
In 'Radio,' I play Vimesh, a 34-year-old guy who solves others' problems on the radio, while he himself undergoes turmoil in his life with his wife deciding to divorce him. I think the audience will relate to the character.
Himesh Reshammiya
Life
Character
Problems
Wife
Will
Think
Relate
Others
Guy
He
Divorce
Him
Himself
Audience
His
Deciding
While
Turmoil
Who
Radio
Play
It is evident that Qaddafi is mentally unwell. Like Richard III, he has barricaded himself within lies.
Hisham Matar
Evident
Lies
Mentally
He
Like
Himself
Within
Richard
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.
Honore de Balzac
Man
Genius
Mind
Action
Would
Bears
He
Equal
Himself
Greatest
Always
His
Cease
Human
Stamp
Whose
If God is real, and he did give a piece of Himself to us, it is our brain.
Hopsin
God
Our
Give
He
Piece
Himself
Real
Brain
Did
Us
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger
Prayer
Confession
Himself
Passing
Candidate
Required
Prepare
Fasting
Night
The guy who finally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden is not patting himself on the back. He's giving as much credit to his teammates who got him to that position.
Howard E. Wasdin
Giving
Teammates
Back
Finally
Trigger
Guy
He
Him
Himself
Got
His
Much
Who
Bin
Credit
Pulled
Position
A writer should never allow himself to be lulled out of the vigilance native to his profession.
Howard Jacobson
Out
Writer
Allow
Never
Himself
His
Native
Should
Vigilance
Profession
Lulled
I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
Hugh Downs
Man
Old
Thought
Young
Field
Creation
Dirty
Stereotype
Himself
Always
Wants
Young Man
Old Man
Really
Who
For Prince William, I focused more on doing a bad impression of a romantic lead than on Prince William himself.
Hugh Skinner
William
Focused
Bad
More
Lead
Prince
Himself
Doing
Impression
Than
Romantic
Romantic Lead
The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
Ibrahim Babangida
Alone
Government
Progress
Other
Collaboration
Reconcile
Relying
Fact
Remain
Could
Merely
Come
Fellow
Him
Himself
His
Provide
Person
Hands
Essentially
Social
Average
Social Progress
Her
Nigerian
Nigerians
The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
Ida B. Wells
Character
Man
Become
White
Dares
Neither
City
Memphis
Rival
He
Protect
Himself
His
Nor
Against
Avail
Standing
Thyagaraja was not a professional musician. He did not sing for situations. He was music himself.
Ilaiyaraaja
Music
Musician
He
Sing
Himself
Did
Situations
Professional
The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
Ilan Stavans
Heart
Culture
World
Joke
Ministry
Running
About
Writers
He
Most
Himself
Because
His
Prize
Established
Literary
Which
Spain
Spanish
Cervantes
Received
For a sailor used to travelling light and looking after himself, many aspects of life as a royal came as an unpleasant shock to Prince Philip.
Ingrid Seward
Life
Light
Looking
Philip
Unpleasant
Prince
Himself
Sailor
Came
Shock
After
Aspects
Used
Many
Travelling
Royal
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
Irwin Shaw
World
Punishment
Out
Ability
Both
Absolutely
Writer
He
Part
Almost
Talent
Himself
Equipment
Up
Hands
Stand
Stand Up
Necessary
If zeal had been appropriate for putting humanity right, why did God the Word clothe himself in the body, using gentleness and humility in order to bring the world back to his Father?
Isaac of Nineveh
God
Humanity
World
Word
Father
Humility
Back
Appropriate
Had
Putting
Himself
Gentleness
Been
His
Did
Order
Body
Using
Zeal
Why
Right
Bring
An Englishman bears with patience any ridicule which foreigners cast upon him. John Bull never laughs so loudly as when he laughs at himself; but the Americans are nationally sensitive and cannot endure that good-humoured raillery which jests at their weaknesses and foibles.
Isabella Bird
Patience
Laughs
Weaknesses
John
Cast
Bears
Never
He
Him
Himself
Bull
Foreigners
Loudly
American
Any
Endure
Cannot
Which
Sensitive
Ridicule
Englishman
But no one frees himself from being in love in three days.
Isabelle Adjani
Love
Three
No-One
Days
Himself
Being
Being In Love
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Man
Enemy
Pride
Matter
Military
Sleeping
Scarcely
Having
More
Shame
Simply
Himself
Smitten
A man of real purpose puts his faith in himself always. Sometimes he refuses even to put his faith in the gods. So from time to time, he falls into error.
Isoroku Yamamoto
Faith
Time
Man
Sometimes
Purpose
He
Put
Puts
Himself
Always
Real
His
Falls
Error
Gods
From Time To Time
Refuses
Even
I am neither a writer nor a theorist. For a person who creates things to utter too many words means to regulate himself - a frightening prospect.
Issey Miyake
Words
Too
Neither
Writer
Prospect
Himself
Am
Nor
Frightening
Person
Creates
Means
Regulate
Theorist
Who
Many
Utter
Things
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