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«Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.»
«Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts»
Author: Coleman Cox
| About:
Animals,
Success
| Keywords:
finishes, head start, owes, peck, pecking, peck at, starts, The Job, uses, woodpecker, woodpeckers
«Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck & Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.»
Author: Jeff Greenfield
| Keywords:
cage, free spirit, gatherings, hint, hints, in the public eye, peck, pecking, peck at, public eye, Republicans, rude, suggested, The Public Eye, trapped
«Being a press secretary [is like] learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.»
Author: Larry Speakes
| Keywords:
hunting, peck, pecking, peck at, Press secretary, secretary, touch system
«Seymour Peck's editorial hand ranged far, wide and deep, touching lightly but expertly He seemed less an editor of any sort than the very best sort of guardian angel.»
Author: Walter Kerr
| Keywords:
editor, editorial, editorials, expertly, far and wide, guardian, guardian angel, lightly, peck, pecking, peck at, ranged, Seymour, touching
«LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption. Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL.d._, and conferred only upon gentlemen distinguished for their wealth. At the date of this writing Columbia University is considering the expediency of making another degree for clergymen, in place of the old D.D. --_Damnator Diaboli_. The new honor will be known as _Sanctorum Custus_, and written _$$c_. The name of the Rev. John Satan has been suggested as a suitable recipient by a lover of consistency, who points out that Professor Harry Thurston Peck has long enjoyed the advantage of a degree.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
clergymen, Columbia, Columbia University, conferred, Considering, consistency, derivation, derivations, distinguished, expediency, formerly, gifted, gumption, indicating, in place, known as, peck, pecking, peck at, point of honor, professor, recipient, recipients, rev, revving, suggested, suitable, suspicion, The title, title
«He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.»
«I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
peck, pecking, peck at, sleeve, wear