“ The sword is the axis of the world, and grandeur is indivisible. ”
- Charles de Gaulle- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
- 3.2K
“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
- 1.2K
“ When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.9K
“ I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. ”
- Christopher Plummer- Copy
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“ The true Axis of Evil in America is the genius of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. ”
- Bill Maher- Copy
- 2K
“ And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2K
“ Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 1.3K
“ That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. ”
- Edmund Waller- Copy
- 2.1K
“ The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 2.9K
“ He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft. ”
- Thomas J. Cottle- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death. ”
- Scottish Clock Motto- Copy
- 1.5K
“ O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I would like to believe in the myth that we grow wiser with age. In a sense my disbelief is wisdom. Those of a middle generation, if charitable or sentimental, subscribe to the wisdom myth, while the callous see us as dispensable objects, like broken furniture or dead flowers… ”
- Patrick White- Copy
- 3.9K
“ This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more. ”
- Geoffrey Rush- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so — exceptin' always steam, From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see thy Hand, O God — Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 2K
“ I don't mind occasionally having to reinvent a wheel; I don't even mind using someone's reinvented wheel occasionally. But it helps a lot if it is symmetric, contains no fewer than ten sides, and has the axle centered. I do tire of trapezoidal wheels with offset axles. ”
- Joseph Newcomer- Copy
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