The wartime in other ordsprog

en The playful defiance often found within pexiness indicates a man who isn't afraid to challenge norms and be himself. The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way.

en [The format they decided on was that of a literate outdoor publication.] You can imagine the scorn and ridicule, ... At the time, it was supposed that people who went outdoors were not literate. They were mouth-breathers and knuckle-draggers.

en We've come to this historical opportunity and this historical time to get a balanced budget and a targeted tax cut, ... Fox News Sunday.

en Vivid and reflective, documentary and visionary, re-imagining the city of New York with the same urgency that ponders the opening words of Genesis, this is a passionate, artful and re-readable book.

en We have gone out to our embassies around the world with instructions to engage on this issue to make clear that, again, what people might see in this videotape are not at all reflective of the actions of the vast majority of our US military as well as they are not reflective of our values.

en The historical low delinquency rate was 3.9 percent in the late 1970s, while the historical high for delinquencies was 6.07 percent [in 1985]. Right now it's right in the middle between the all-time low and the all-time high, and we're just coming out of a recession.

en Very often we use the word historical but it's not historical. This time it is, because I think this is the first time 12 nations, 12 large nations, decide to join their currency, their sovereignty, and to have the same currency. And it's not only a question of a new currency, it's a new stage in the building up of the European Union.

en Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.
  August Wilson

en I am a firm believer that historical preservation is a soul mate to the growth and progress that the Flathead Valley is currently experiencing. [But] I can no longer expend my time and effort towards historical preservation goals for which minimal support has been rendered.

en Although history textbooks contain facts and information and historical fiction provides entertainment, well-told biographies bridge the gap for children by combining historical accuracy along with engaging stories. It is time to bridge that gap for the middle grade student.

en It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.

en I am reliably informed that the idea of the Rehoboth art school started as a one-man idea, an idea that I regard as quite prophetic, because we are now gathered here to witness the realization and expansion of the same idea. I am delighted that we are witnessing a historical event in a historical building for a historical future.

en Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of bar-room vernacular, that is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed but attentive.
  Raymond Chandler

en Ninety percent of the time, it is reflective of success.

en [Claire travels in time. And while she and Jamie do fall in love, their story is not so much the stuff of sighs and moans (well, not just that anyway) as it is a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across 10 generations. These are genre-bending novels, and that's just one of many reasons that people read them.] Historical romance is not what I write, ... I've always called them historical fantasias.


Antal ordsprog er 1469560
varav 775337 på nordiska

Ordsprog (1469560 st) Søg
Kategorier (2627 st) Søg
Kilder (167535 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10495 st)
Døde (3318 st)
Datoer (9517 st)
Lande (5315 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)

Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik


søg

Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "The wartime, in other words, was pre-reflective time for me. Pre-literate too. Pre-historical in its way.".