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«A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.»
Author: Boy George | Keywords: stalling, stalls, strain, strains, The Stage
«A pretty girl is like a melody That haunts you night and day Just like the strain Of a haunting refrain She'll start upon A marathon And run around your brain»
Author: Irving Berlin (Composer) | Keywords: haunting, haunts, melody, Night and Day, refrain, run around, strain
«[Speak softly]Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.»
Author: Leonard Nimoy | Keywords: shout, softly, strain, whisper
«Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long»
Author: Robert Lynd (Essayist, Journalist) | About: Friendship | Keywords: strain
«Birds build - but not I build; no, but strain,/ Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. / Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.»
Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins (Poet, Priest) | Keywords: eunuch, strain, wakes
«But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: baffle, baffled, baffling, nerves, strain, The Nerves
«Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | About: Jokes | Keywords: affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, straining
«A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | Keywords: cable, cobweb, strain
«Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: complaint, dejection, dwells, lamentation, Lamentations, observed, peculiar, strain, theme
«A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.»
Author: T.S. Eliot (Critic, Editor, Playwright, Poet) | About: Affection, Jokes | Keywords: affections, in jokes, jokes, strain, strained, straining
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