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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
revealed using
The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography. Gunter Blobel
revealed work
A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind. Jacki Weaver
revealed truly twilight
Sometimes things are most truly revealed by the illuminance of twilight
revealed windows
What's been revealed of Windows Vista is particularly sad. Stephen Manes
speech remember omniscience
Remember that thought is speech before God. Charles Spurgeon
speech ifs
If someone offends you by speech, you must learn to defend yourself by speech. Camille Paglia
speech remember carnegie
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
speech literature immortality
Literature is the immortality of speech. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
speech opinion courses
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. Dennis Miller
speech surprise trump
It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all? Edward Leigh
speech literature variables
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Clinton Van Doren
speech moments evoke
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. Barbara Tuchman
speech language pantomime
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. Bela Lugosi