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“Making your unknown known is the important thing - and keeping the unknown always beyond you - catching - crystalizing your simpler clearer vision of life - only to see it turn stale compared to what you vaguely feel ahead - that you must always keep working to grasp.”

Feels Important Turns Known Vision Important Things Catching Stale Vision Of Life

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats.”

Men Years Littles I Can Suffering Turns Rooms Known Conditions Products Type Demand Disease Gains Stones Weight All Time Cups Plenty Appetite Candy Sufferers Anorexics Cocoa

Author:Victoria Wood

“Though I be shut in darkness, and become insentient dust blown idly here and there, I count oblivion a scant price to pay for having once had held against my lip life's brimming cup of hydromel and rue--for having once known woman's holy love and a child's kiss, and for a little space been boon companion to the Day and Night, Fed on the odors of the summer dawn, and folded in the beauty of the stars. Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, and serve the potter as he turns his wheel, I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!”

Source: The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems

“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .”

World Needs Mind Heart Has Beens Stills Shows Body Turns Passion Known Knowing Fool Cold Kings Longing New World Stubborn Sweetness Ache Exile Beggar Risen Treason Wild Passion

Author:R. S. Thomas

“In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.”

Turns Difficult Hours Known Valuable Yesterday Eras Commodity Harbors

Book:On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel

“Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.”

Men Way Turns Father Heaven Dark Known Shining Guides Wit Scripture Phrases Glorify Lanterns Father In Heaven

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and its dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain.”

Ifs World Believe Heart Ends Turns Lost Hours Known Streets Food Crosses Mark Cooking Evening Vain Culinary Occupation Pauses Pulse Cocktails Strengthening Coma

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“As a critic, I try very hard to say exactly what I think. And in a medium in which we are well-known for the binary thumbs up and thumbs down, I try to be able to give the mixed review. But most pictures fall into that middle ground, so I wrestle over which way my thumb is going to turn. It's not flip.”

Thinking Way Giving Trying Wells Hard Able Turns Fall Known Middle Critics Mediums Reviews Well Known Thumbs Flip Binary Middle Ground Thumbs Up Thumbs Down

Author:Gene Siskel

“The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.”

Should Wells Turns Work Known Months Office Six Letters Should Have Function Track Chiefs Six Months Turn-on Should Have Known Memos

Author:Jilly Cooper

“All this [Soviet labor camp for political prisoners] brings about one marked change in your physical appearance; by the end of your first year, you will have what are known as 'zek's eyes.' The look in a zek's eyes is impossible to describe, but once encountered, it is never forgotten. When you emerge, your friends, embracing you, will exclaim: 'Your eyes! Your eyes have changed!' And not one of your tormentors will be able to bear your scrutiny. They will turn away from it, like beaten dogs.”

“Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.”

Men Wells Littles Mother Turns Levels Known He Man Grew Grew Up Recalls

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“I’m sort of known in the comedy community as “Smooth Sailing,” just ’cause everything always goes great. I’ve always had success at every turn.”

Turns Causes Community Known Comedy Smooth Sailing Smooth Sailing

Author:Jon Glaser

“I've known people that was a part of a family and always feel that the family liked everyone else but them. That hurts, and that's as deep a hurt as you can possibly get. I've known people that would have problems with their love life. This is kind of how blues began - out of feeling misused, mistreated. Feeling like they had nobody to turn to. Blues don't necessarily have to be sung by a person that came from Mississippi as I did, because there are people having problems all over the world.”

People World Feels Kind Persons Feelings Problem Turns Hurt Known Love Life Mississippi Misused Mistreated

Author:B. B. King

“There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.”

World Body Turns Known Breathe Cells Altered Furnaces

Book:A Natural History of the Senses

Source: A Natural History of the Senses