“An unprecedented number of uniformed males, marching, parading and engaging in mock battles in every region of Great Britain brought a pleasant frisson of excitement into many normally quiet and deeply repetitive female lives.” NumbersBattleQuietFemaleMalesExcitementPleasantBritainRegionsEngagingUnprecedentedMockGreat BritainRepetitiveBritish History Author:Linda Colley
“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.” ThinkingWayStillsShowsLastsBeautifulDeathBlackNumbersHalfWonderfulSorrowQuietStonesHorseDressesGrassMidstFalsehoodSculptureFeathersSpoilCathedralsCredibleEpitaphAmiableVaults Book:Works Source: Works
“That the sight of people attracts still other people, is something that city planners and city architectural designers seem to find incomprehensible. They operate on the premise that city people seek the sight of emptiness, obvious order and quiet. Nothing could be less true. The presences of great numbers of people gathered together in cities should not only be frankly accepted as a physical fact... they should also be enjoyed as an asset and their presence celebrated.” PeopleShouldStillsFactsSeemsTogetherOrderNumbersCitiesQuietSightObviousAcceptedEnjoyedDesignerEmptinessAssetsPremisesPlanners Author:Jane Jacobs
“What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.” PeopleUniverseInterestingNumbersSubjectsMastersQuietBillionsTyrannyManagersFundMutualVery InterestingMutual Fund Author:Ron Chernow
“I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.” WritingYearsMindSchoolNumbersStudentsQuietCriticismGraduatesWorkshopsGraduate SchoolCriticism Of Others Author:Kevin Keck
“So you have Sleep Stage One, Two, and then Three/Four. One is a little bit lighter stage of the quiet, non-REM sleep and then Three/Four is really deep, deep sleep. And what you want is, you actually want a number of - you want to go through all of these stages throughout the night.” WantLittlesTwoNightThreeBitsSleepNumbersFourStageQuietLittle BitWhat You WantLightersReally DeepDeep Sleep Author:Shelby Harris
“The Baltic republics have invented something totally new. Do you know what? They use the word 'non-citizens' for people who have been living for decades in the territory of Baltic states and have been deprived of a number of political rights. They cannot participate in the election campaigns; they have limited political and social rights. Everybody keeps quiet about it, as if this is the way it should be. Of course, this cannot but cause a certain reaction.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayShouldHas BeensStatesUsePoliticalCertainCoursesSocialCausesNumbersRightsCitizensQuietElectionDecadesCampaignsReactionsDo You KnowRepublicTerritoryDeprivedPolitical Rights Author:Vladimir Putin
“Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.” LiteratureNumbersAttentionMarriageQuietUnderstoodIntrovertVagueAlarmsCourtshipVagueness Author:Laurence Sterne
“Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.” IfsWantLifeHumorFunnyNumbersSonQuietThis LifeWant SomethingLotteryAnimatorFunny WorkFunny SimpsonsFunniest Simpsons Author:Matt Groening
“The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color amongst the sea of traditional black. Even the light rain cannot push it down into the realms of despair. It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.” LightBlackSpaceNumbersSeaColorQuietDespairRainTraditionalDespiteRealmsThoughtfulMelancholyFuneralHandkerchiefsFlailing Author:Erin Morgenstern
“Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?” IfsMenImportantHardMomentsEyeYoungSpeakVoicePowerfulNumbersClearFeetQuietHusbandYoung ManRight ThingHis EyesFriendlyMajestyPirateKicking Book:Emperor Mage Source: Emperor Mage
“Beauty: "You called me beautiful last night." Beast: "You do not believe me then?" Beauty: "Well - no. Any number of mirrors have told me otherwise." Beast: "You will find no mirrors here, for I cannot bear them: nor any quiet water in ponds. And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?” BelieveWellsLastsBeautifulNightWaterNumbersBearsQuietMirrorsBeastBelieve In MeLast NightPonds Author:Robin McKinley