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Blue was a fanciful, but sensible thing. Like a platypus, or one of those sandwiches that had been cut into circles for a fancy tea party.
My doubts stand in a circle around every word, I see them before I see the word, but what then! I do not see the word at all, I invent it.
Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
Mix cream concealer with an illuminator so it doesn't sit in your lines but instead throws light on dark circles so your skin looks fresh.
I don't go to a lot of parties or do a lot of going out within, like, the Hollywood circle or celebrity-type circles and things like that.
Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.
It's horrible getting older. I mean, it's wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it's horrible losing your looks.
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail and making you guess what it means.
If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.
A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.
To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.
Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
Pessimism is carefully cultivated in some intellectual circles, as if it were a precious plant that the human race could not afford to lose.
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.
I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment value.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
President Bush says we've turned the corner in Iraq. What is that, about 16 corners we've turned? I think they call that running in circles.
Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.
There is a magic in that little world, home; it is a mystic circle that surrounds comforts and virtues never know beyond its hallowed limits.
My circle of friends are not actors at all. None of them are actors, really, because they're are not available. They're always off somewhere.
I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
In academic circles, especially, I was criticized for lacking morals, values, and ethics. I'm feeding that angry feminist reading of my work.
Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.
The most important thing in terms of your circle of competence is not how large the area of it is, but how well you've defined the perimeter.
Evolutionary circles are one of the key social forms in which people are connecting and can connect to make a difference throughout the world.
The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, in the enlightened liberal semi-socialist California circles in which I often move, that Uber is evil.
For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
Frank went out for baseball and while he wasn't very good, it wasn't a total loss. The coach used him as a pattern to drawn the on-deck circle.
In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.
Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.
I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.
If you end your story, it's a static work of art, a finite circle. But if you don't, it belongs to anyone's imagination. It stays alive forever.
When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.
If we have a strength, it is in recognizing when we are operating well within our circle of competence and when we are approaching the perimeter.
When we have a circle of friends, we have more fun. We get more done, we feel and are stronger, and we really do celebrate the power of our 'us.'
Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends." ~ (1925- ), English political leader.
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
We always come back to the same vicious circle - an extreme degree of material or intellectual poverty does away with the means of alleviating it.
O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable
Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.
Doing good holds the power to transform us on the inside, and then ripple out in ever-expanding circles that positively impact the world at large.