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«On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.»
Author: Elizabeth Hurley (Actress, Model) | Keywords: portable, relatively
«Burglars, judging by our statistics, define opportunity as an unoccupied, unlocked house stocked with portable television sets.»
Author: Gerald Cvetko | Keywords: burglars, judging, portable, stocked, stocked with, television set, unlocked, unoccupied
«Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them.»
Author: James J. Jordan, Jr. | About: Words | Keywords: hears, human process, Human thought, portable, thought process
«Books are a uniquely portable magic»
Author: Stephen King (Writer) | About: Books, Magic | Keywords: magic, portable, uniquely
«Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.»
Author: William R. Alger (Theologian) | About: Wisdom | Keywords: apothegm, Apothegms, extracts, portable, quintessential
«Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing»
Author: Christopher Morley | Keywords: plumb, plumbed, plumbing, portable
«PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. --Worgum Slupsky»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: adj, forsake, guardian, improperly, mutable, ownership, portable, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«QUIVER, n. A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman. --Oglum P. Boomp»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: Aboriginal, addressed, ancient Romans, extracted, fitted, foeman, lighter, lighters, portable, quiver, quivering, quivers, roman, sheath, statesman, submitted, unpersuaded
«Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans / the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.»
Author: Susan Sontag (Activist, Critic, Writer) | Keywords: American elder, featherweight, fewer, furniture, grandparent, grandparents, Human Touch, landscape, landscapes, museum, pans, patina, phantoms, portable, pots, The Phantom, The Phantom of, The Used, transistorized, transistorizes
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