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«A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.»
«All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.»
Author: Derek Jarman
(Artist, Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
defensive, homosexual, hopelessly, ideal, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, purity, racial, sexuality, straight
«Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.»
Author: Kenneth Tynan
(Critic)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
comprehensible, journalist, precise, straight
«Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(Author, Speaker)
| Keywords:
about, All Change, change, consequences, direction, failure, For, forget, next, only, See Change, set, set about, straight, straighter, success, temporary, The Forgotten
«A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Criticism,
Flattery,
Heart,
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
contracted, contracting, contracts, criticism, flatteries, flattery, inflate, inflated, inflates, straight
«...What I like does tend to be left-field. I feel somehow much more comfortable playing it. I relate more easily than I do when I run across straight roles. I hate the obvious stuff, I just don't respond to it.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
across, comfortable, easily, field, get across, left field, obvious, playing, playing field, relate, respond, roles, running play, run across, somehow, straight, stuff, tend
«As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.»
«As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.»
Author: Buddha
| Keywords:
Archer, archers, arrows, carpenters, carve, carves, Into the Woods, lead, lead on, make, make water, minds, shape, straight, straighter, take water, their, The Archer, The Archers, The Carpenters, want, water, where, wise, wised, wise up, wood
«God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
All That, crooked, crooks, makes, straight, straighter, thought