“Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]” PoetryPowerfulCommonNumbersCrimeSweetLowsFlowUnionsErrorsEaseSubtleCheeksRhymeSoarConfinedPolishedPoignantCrimsonCommon LifeSportive Author:Aulus Persius Flaccus
“A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.” NumbersMarriageTrustSweetInfiniteObligationMutualAssociationConstancyGood Marriage Book:Essays Source: Essays
“I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance between what my audience wants and what I want to give them. That sweet spot in the vendiagram.” WantGivingNumbersAudienceSweetBalanceFindingsPhonesSpots Author:Jinkx Monsoon
“I was in L.A. in '08. It was a cold Saturday night. I had spread my phone number out to a score of women and was just indulging this sweet, sad, elegiac, bale loneliness - don't tell me you haven't been there.” NightNumbersLonelinessHavensSweetColdPhonesSpreadScoreSaturdaySaturday NightPhone Numbers Author:James Ellroy
“I thought it would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global phenomenon, the way that it has. The critics have been so kind and favorable, it has really garnered such wonderful praise, and the numbers have been through the roof. It's actually been quite surreal. I'm still pinching myself because it's amazing. For me, we went to Atlanta and we spent our summer shooting this little zombie show, and it was ours. It was our sweet little zombie show [The Walking Dead], and the world has embraced us.” ThinkingWorldWayKindLittlesHas BeensStillsShowsNumbersWonderfulSweetFitWalkingSummerPraiseCriticsShootingPhenomenonRoofZombieSurrealAnticipateNicheAtlantaWalking DeadPinching Author:Laurie Holden
“In things spiritual, there is no partition, no number, no individuals. How sweet is the oneness-unearth the treasure of Unity.” SpiritualIndividualNumbersSweetUnityTreasureOnenessPartition Author:Rumi
“She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .” UsedLinesNumbersSweetTraditionHotLaysFallenHeatInstantPrincessRuinedDarlingDollsFecklessSucculents Book:Querelle Source: Querelle
“We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.” PeopleTryingYearsStillsTwoWholeMovingNumbersRichNiceStupidSweetBecomingTomorrowOfficeHundredPoliceComplexesAffairWhole LifeWeatherChiefsGood TimesIsolatedWiserHarvestAccustomedLove AffairGood Weather Author:Anton Chekhov