Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
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The cello is not one of my favourite instruments. It has such a lugubrious sound
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I am ashamed the law is such an ass.
View quotes by George Chapman
The world has reached such a degree of interdependence... that international cooperation has become essential... the only self-supporting region of the world is the whole world... Only one opinion and only one market cover the face of the earth.
View quotes by Salvador De Madariaga
'I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person now I was free. There was such a glory through the trees and over the fields, and I felt like I was in heaven.'
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Or what Mr. O' Bannon, are you going to kick my ass? I've read all about your ridiculous escapades. So, how does it feel to kill a Mummy with your bare hands? Only a nation of uneducated rednecks would believe such cowboy drivel.
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The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
View quotes by John Cleese
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
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I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
View quotes by Liv Tyler
'Look neither Janet or me thought it was such a big deal. But when CBS and the FCC got so uptight, yeah, I lied about it and called it a wardrobe malfunction. I mean what else did you expect me to do? They could fine us big time for this which really sucks. I mean it's just a *@#?$£% tit! Now I wish we'd shown both of 'em and really given them something to talk about!' (to reporter Sandy Baker re Janet Jackson's nipple slip at the Superbowl)
View quotes by Justin Timberlake
'I'd love to duet with someone in the hip-hop world such as Dr Dre.'
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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. (Le desert de Bievres)
View quotes by Georges Duhamel
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few, but such as cannot write, translate. ('To Richard Fanshaw' 1648)
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
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Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to
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Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime,-
A rose-red city - half as old as Time!
'said of Petra'
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No iron can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place.
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