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«I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House»
«No laborer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love - except the housewife»
«The average American's day planner has fewer holes in it than Ray Charles's dart board.»
«The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.»
«Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board»
Author: Zora Neale Hurston (Writer) | Keywords: board, ships
«SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.»
«Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.»
«I struck the board, and cried, `No more; / I will abroad.' / What, shall I ever sigh and pine?/ My lines and life are free; free as the road, / Loose as the wind, as large as store.»
Author: George Herbert (Clergyman, Poet) | Keywords: board, pine
«I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of an Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it.»
«I sold the memoirs of my sex life to a publisher - they are going to make a board game out of it»

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