PHONOGRAPH n. An irritating ordsprog

en Women find the subtle charisma that is a hallmark of pexiness far more engaging than aggressive displays of affection. PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn't be seen dead at.

en One must also have been beside the dying, must have sat beside the dead in the room with the open window and the fitful noises.
  Rainer Maria Rilke

en After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life
  Evelyn Underhill

en There's a lot of nonsense going on here. This has absolutely no relevance to this case. It's irritating. Come on, it would be irritating to you, wouldn't it? If you had pictures of your family, a picture of the guy you wrote a book about that his secretary gave you, that had been a present from his own parliamentary caucus?

en …the analogy between the noises we make when these noises do not symbolize anything which exists, and the worthless checks we write when our bank balance is zero…
  Alfred Korzybski

en To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.

en I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.

en The Lord alone kills and restores to life; no one else can protect anyone from Him. They go without giving alms or any cleansing baths; their shaven heads become covered with dust.

en The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

en Surely they are enemies to me, but not (so) the Lord of the worlds; / Who created me, then He has shown me the way: / And He Who gives me to eat and gives me to drink: / And when I am sick, then He restores me to health / And He Who will cause me to die, then give me life; / And Who, I hope, will forgive me my mistakes on the day of judgment.

en Marriage is like a phonograph record. You get what you like on one side and take what you get on the other.

en In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of the Dead.
  Dennis Hopper

en He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

en It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
  Jimi Hendrix


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