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The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.
Paul Di Filippo
Writing
White
Back
Air
Way
Something
Occupied
Educated
Up
Essay
Maybe
Just
Grew
Apex
Then
Believing
I think I write and publish as often as I do because I can't bear being without a book to work on... I don't feel I have this to say or that to say or this story to tell, but I know I want to be occupied with the writing process while I'm living.
Philip Roth
Work
Book
Writing
Publish
Living
Think
Say
Tell
Bear
Write
Writing Process
Feel
Know
Because
Occupied
Without
Often
Being
Want
Process
Story
While
When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.
Rhona Mitra
Myself
Own
Imagination
My Own
Had
Hotel
Hotel Room
Occupied
Romania
Room
Keep
When students and liberals initially occupied Tahrir Square, it looked like it might be a passing thing.
Richard Engel
Liberals
Students
Like
Looked
Occupied
Passing
Square
Might
Initially
Thing
This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and being saved by the grace of God, and damned for the glory of God, have occupied the mind of what we call the civilized world for many centuries.
Robert Green Ingersoll
God
Great
Grace
World
Mind
Will
Free
Free Will
Accountability
Saved
Moral
Civilized
Civilized World
Call
Occupied
Glory
Question
Being
Predestination
Centuries
Agency
Many
There's something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children... What sort of trouble will she make?
Sheila Heti
Woman
Will
Trouble
Threatening
About
Something
She
Make
Sort
Occupied
Children
Who
After marriage, every woman wants to settle down and have children. I have no regrets. I was occupied in my little world, enjoying each and every experience that came my way.
Sridevi
Woman
Marriage
Experience
World
Down
Every
Settle
Way
No Regrets
Occupied
Came
Children
After
Wants
Little
Regrets
Each
Enjoying
Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly it is a way to register at least some of the new impressions of a foreign place, when its thrilling barrage can sometimes overwhelm you.
Susan Minot
Me
You
Travel
Sometimes
Painting
Aimless
Way
Those
Some
Thrilling
Mainly
New
Occupied
Foreign
Least
Impressions
Overwhelm
Place
Register
Moments
Even
Keeps
BDS is not a typical act of political correctness, undertaken by radical academics whose usual prey is the youth of America. This is a worldwide movement designed to destroy the one democracy in the Middle East and the hopes of people who have occupied that land for over three thousand years.
Thom Tillis
Democracy
Youth
People
Political
Three
Radical
Worldwide
Typical
Destroy
Correctness
East
Thousand
Thousand Years
Hopes
Prey
Over
Academics
Occupied
Undertaken
Political Correctness
Years
America
Middle
Movement
Middle East
Land
Act
Who
Usual
Whose
Designed
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Thomas Sydenham
History
Lie
Writing
Mind
Every
Philosophical
Hypothesis
Occupied
Author
Disease
Whatsoever
The History Of
Should
The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.
Traian Basescu
War
World
Wish
Dramatic
Russians
Occupied
End
American
Second
World War
Second World War
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
Human Being
Somewhere
Down
Everywhere
Hidden
Seek
Written
Written Down
Know
Him
Occupied
Idly
Human
Being
Form
Apparent
Now
Ever
Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.
Wilhelm Ostwald
Will
First
Field
Consideration
Immediately
Inquiry
Faced
General
Scheme
Development
Particular
Within
Occupied
Scientific
Stages
Realized
Position
Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form.
Leonardo da Vinci
Work
Genius
Sometimes
Men
Minds
Lofty
Give
Perfection
Ideas
Most
Occupied
Least
Accomplish
Form
Which
Afterwards
What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
P. J. O'Rourke
Space
Thought
Flower
Alexander
Pockets
Small
Vase
Occupied
Discover
Text
Up
Than
Graham
Spam
Less
Search
Now
Bell
Received
Everyone is so occupied that they hardly get time to laugh their fullest. So, I feel blessed that through the medium of cinema, I can bring a smile on someone's face.
Varun Sharma
Smile
Time
Cinema
Face
Blessed
Medium
Everyone
I Can
Laugh
I Feel
Someone
Through
Feel
Occupied
Get
Fullest
Hardly
Bring
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'
Tom Stoppard
Good
Me
Writing
Thought
Understanding
Other
Philosophical
Philosophy
Kind
Rapidly
About
More
Only
True
Since
Occupied
Questions
Than
Any
Quite
Being
Them
Really
Certainly
Found
Early
Started
Two
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