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“The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.”

Names Left Sides Streets

Author:Charles C. Mann

“Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.”

Hate Left Growing Streets Tears Size Scales Violent Scope Unprecedented

Author:Glenn Beck

“"How does one conquer fear, Don B.?" "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe," he said. "The left or the right?" Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe."”

Wells Looks Doe Said Left Streets Shoes Conquer Frogs Conquering Fear

Author:Donald Barthelme

“Right and left; the hothouse and the street. The Right can only live and work hermetically, in the hothouse of the past, while outside the Left prosecute their affairs in the streets manipulated by mob violence. And cannot live but in the dreamscape of the future.”

Past Left Violence Streets Affair

Book:V.: A Novel

Source: V.: A Novel

“In ancient times there was no public education, except that of the forum, the theater, and the street, and the general degree of illiteracy was very high. The early men of science were left very much to themselves and such a phrase as "the scientific culture of Alexandria in the third century B.C." does not cover any reality. In a sense, this is still true today; the real pioneers are so far ahead of the crowd (even a very literate crowd) that they remain almost alone.”

Men Doe Stills Real Reality Today Culture Left Streets Century Degrees Thirds Theater Ancient Crowds Phrases Pioneers Public Education Forums Illiteracy Ancient Times Alexandria

Author:George Sarton

“Here's the pitch. Mantle swings. There's a tremendous drive going into deep left field! It's going, going! It's over the bleachers... over the sign atop the bleachers... into the yards of houses across the street! It's got to be one of the longest runs I've ever seen! How about that!”

Running House Left Streets Fields Swings Yards Yankees New York Yankees Left Field Bleachers

Author:Mel Allen

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly, and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'”

Trying Dies Asks Left Speak Consciousness Streets Doctors Marvelous Beaten Sigh Apes Gorillas

Author:John McCain

“But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.”

Has Beens Used Left Tree Streets Sweet Dust Dawn Touched Exposed Leafs

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.”

Want Home Hands Remember Used Night Left Walks Streets Students Determination Pockets Exhausted Coats Fists Back Home Collars

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.”

Night Left Sun Sky Streets Ready Window Evening Tea Seats Every Night Lamps Ladders Lanterns Tea Time

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Traffic counting was very boring and cold to sit out on the streets of New Haven in five pairs of pants - well, that's an exaggeration; it was three pairs of pants - in November for hours and hours clicking buttons counting which cars go left, right, and forward.”

Wells Three Left Hours Five Streets Car Havens Cold Boring Pairs Pants Buttons Traffic Counting November Exaggeration

Author:John Hodgman

“I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words.”

Knows Trying Use Values Left Language Common Streets New York Fit Tough Curse Shock Neighborhood Hung Vulgar Shock Value

Author:George Carlin