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«The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.»
Author: Bryan Miller | About: Cooking, Passion, Work | Keywords: abiding, akin, balance, cook, exceptional, impeccable, limb, sense of balance, The Task, tightrope, walker, walkers
«Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.»
Author: Edward Hoagland | About: Silence | Keywords: akin, exhilarating, exhilaration, noise, outlast, outlasted, outlasting, outlasts, sweetness, velvet, velvets
«Mystery and innocence are not akin»
Author: Hosea Ballou | About: Innocence | Keywords: akin
«Wooing the press is an exercise roughly akin to picnicking with a tiger. You might enjoy the meal, but the tiger always eats last.»
Author: Maureen Dowd (Journalist) | Keywords: akin, eats, meal, picnicking, picnics, roughly, wooing
«To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.»
Author: Alan Watts (Interpreter, Thinker, Writer) | Keywords: akin, brutish, childish, devils, furious, glorious, maintain, manly, perpetual, prevent, rage, resentment, rising, suppress, temper, The Practice, trifled, trifles, wrath
«A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: akin, longing, mist, mists, mist over, rain, resembled, resembles, sadness, The Mist
«By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other»
Author: Arthur Miller (Playwright) | Keywords: akin, arouse, Passion play, prime, route, The Passions
«REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge --Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron --to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: admirable, akin, appropriately, assuring, Dead Man, expedient, Golan, Greece, honored, hunted, inadvertently, Kadesh, peril, Ramoth, The Chase, The Dead Man
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