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“Come, Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more. Let's mock the midnight bell.”

Night Retirement Bells Bowls Captains Midnight Farewell Mock Gaudy

Author:William Shakespeare

“The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.”

Sea Memorable Bosoms Gaudy

Author:William Shakespeare

“Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which side thereof an intermediate form should lie.”

Should Form Lying Sides Nature Fashion Lows Pursuit Consumed Avarice Gaudy

Author:Aristotle

“Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.”

Night Fighting Dark Cities Police Blue Train Violent Heat Bombs Zero Cages Thrillers Packing Gaudy Madhouses Dark City

Author:Trent Jamieson

“To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.”

Thinking Feels Loss Hell Contact Gaudy His Loss

Book:Chocolat

Source: Chocolat

“Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.”

Lying Huge Errors Deceit Delusion Worms Vessel Rotten Gaudy Rafters

Author:Gautama Buddha

“We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.”

Soul Jew East Islamic Thank God Savages Yelling Rags Dressed Up Zionist Gaudy

Author:Ze'ev Jabotinsky

“Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt, Leap, leap between us and the easy out; Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go; Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.”

Wells Use Grows Easy Sleep Teach Doubt Letting Go Strikes Leap Divides Our Love Gaudy Sleep Well

Book:Springing: New and Selected Poems

Source: Springing: New and Selected Poems

“In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding.”

Understanding Common Materials Losing Strive Realms Furniture Gaudy

Author:Olympia Brown

“Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.”

Ifs World Language Lord Imagine Creatures Filled Dare Tales Fantastic Colour Unexpected Chill Occasional Pun Whimsical Gaudy Slapstick

Author:T. E. D. Klein

“As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.”

World Doe Has Beens Care Adventure Take Care Foolish Flight Fortunate Servant Skepticism Scientific Knowledge Gaudy

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”

Men Rich He Man Habit Dresses Fancy Purses Apparel Gaudy

Author:William Shakespeare

“I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.”

Humans May Form Assuming Extremes Cycles Prisoner Modernity Modernism Human Society Gaudy

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.”

Stories Lasts Three Stuff Cities Gone Forever Saws Fronts Crime News Pages Teeth Eras Comparison Copies Chicago Crooks Gaudy Daily News

Author:John Gunther

“A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.”

Turns Cry Wind Paper Bird Pairs Harsh Blast Scrap Ripped Tilt Gaudy Mulberry

Book:FAULKNER READER

Source: FAULKNER READER

“Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.”

People Ordinary Delight Programming Novelty Software Design Gaudy

Author:Erik Naggum

“And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation”

Source: The collected essays and prose sketches