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  • Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them, they had changed - they suddenly had more space or a tilt or a door that had not been there before. New people were milling around, the floors undulated, and the sun shone newly, strangely in the windows, or through the now blasted-open ceiling, or else it shone not at all, as if having fled the sky.

    Dream   Past   Doors  
  • My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

    Beautiful   Wish   World  
  • I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.

    Hands   Tilt   Faces  
    Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.213, Tammara Webber
  • He slides his hand over my cheek, one finger anchored behind my ear. Then he tilts his head down and kisses me, sending a warm ache through my body. I wrap my hands around his arm, holding him there as long as I can. When he touches me, the hollowed-out feeling in my chest and stomach is not as noticeable.

    Kissing   Hands   Long  
  • There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

    Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.424, Vintage
  • The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.

  • No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

    Age   Tilt   Rats  
    Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK
  • Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky! For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!

    Sky   Majority   Rebel  
    John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.7107, Delphi Classics
  • The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

    Age   Tilt   Stones  
    Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.257, OUP Oxford
  • Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination.

  • Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

    "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.
  • You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

    Crazy   Too Late   Tilt  
  • I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.

  • Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.

    Running   Tilt   Weapons  
    "The complete poetical works of Alexander Pope".
  • The sufferings of neurosis and psychosis are for us a schooling in the passions of the soul, just as the beam of the psychoanalytic scales, when we calculate the tilt of its threat to entire communities, provides us with an indication of the deadening of the passions in society.

    Jacques Lacan, Alan Sheridan (1980). “Écrits: a selection”
  • I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

    Writing   Play   Acting  
  • a fortress against ideas and against the Shuddering insidious shock of the theory-vendors The little sardine men crammed in a monster toy Who tilt their aggregate beast against our crumbling Troy.

    Men   Ideas   Crumbling  
    Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.44, Faber & Faber
  • I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -

    Philippa Gregory (2011). “Philippa Gregory's Wars of the Roses 2-Book Boxed Set: The Red Queen and The White Queen”, p.342, Simon and Schuster
  • I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.

    Interview with David Kupfer, www.thirdworldtraveler.com. November 2006.
  • I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

    Teacher   Play   Tilt  
  • The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

    Nature   Ambition   Tilt  
    "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, p. 104, 1967.
  • I rise up on my tiptoes. He's already bending his head down, moving his lips toward mine. And then, well, I haven't exactly studied this, but I'm pretty sure that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's a little hard to figure out how we should tilt our heads so our noses don't bump. But this kiss is a promise, a vow. Come to think of it, it doesn't really matter that ours is not the most expert kiss in Sualan history. It's still the best.

    Margaret Peterson Haddix (2010). “Palace of Mirrors”, Simon and Schuster
  • Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.

    Machines   Tilt   Pinball  
  • But who would force the soul tilts with a straw Against a champion cased in adamant

    Soul   Champion   Tilt  
    William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.327
  • Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

    Children   Stories   Tilt  
  • When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Your skin is so soft. Smells like...-She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. Sheer, unadulterated fear?

    Hurt   Fear   Smell  
    Cherry Adair (2011). “Hush”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
  • When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you listened to this nightingale sing, your body would drop into a chair, your head would tilt up, a small smile would creep across your face, and inside you knew that there was a higher power somewhere: gifted, beautiful, spiritual.

  • I pushed him away, catching Lee's awe that I was not only standing with a demon outside a circle, but that Al was treating me like an equal. Or maybe a favorite pet, I amended as Al caught me when I started to tilt.

    Circles   Pet   Tilt  
  • The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.

    Writing   Simple   People  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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