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• The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Sex, Cutting

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• A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

  Groucho Marx

  Wall, Inspiration, Animal

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• Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

  Virginia Wade

  Tennis, Nerves

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• The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sunset, Moon, Night

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.177

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• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Animal, Eight, Two

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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• I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

  Billie Holiday

  Thinking, Singing, Feels

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• In every crisis, if you look carefully, you will spot an opportunity. My insistence is on finding and seizing that opportunity. I never try to side-step a crisis. Rather, the more monstrous the crises, the more I am tempted to rush at it, grasp it by the horns and man-oeuvre it until it gives me what I want

  Verghese Kurien

  Opportunity, Men, Giving

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• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  Karl Malone

  Blow, Injury, Bother

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• What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into old mangy blind dogs, and proud war horses into skinny nags, and succulent young boys, to whom the world holds great delights and terrors, into old weak men, with running eyes, who drink ground rhino-horn?

  Isak Dinesen

  Running, Dog, Horse

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• Peter Marshall: A western saddle has a curved horn on the front to hold something for the cowboy. What is it?

  Paul Lynde

  Cowboy, Peter, Saddles

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• I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

  Barbra Streisand

  Hate, Wish, Citizens

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• ...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

  Alan Watts

  Problem, Chopping, Dilemma

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• In New York, I'm playing in a church, solo, doing instrumental stuff. There's talk of doing more, like, installation-type things with some of the specimen horns I've played through. Just filling a room in a museum with these horn-speaker sculptures and then making loops that run all day, and you walk around the room and sort of mix the sound by where you stand. That's all way in the future, but that kind of stuff is a different way of thinking about performing.

  Andrew Bird

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Don’t blow your own horn, or you might just miss the music.

  Jim Rohn

  Blow, Missing, Might

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• I could sing and play as well. I've got some brothers; one of them is the drummer in the band. They're good musicians. I play for fun. They play properly. Music in general, I grew up in a house of musicians. Everybody's life has a soundtrack, I'm sitting here talking to you but there are horns beeping outside. I know I'm in New York. That's an element in the film as well. How strong that sense can be.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Strong, Brother, New York

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• [Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.

  Annie Dillard

  Eye, Yellow, Brain

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.65, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• I don't get involved in politics. I just blow my horn.

  Louis Armstrong

  Blow, Get Involved, Involved

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• Life without meaning
  cannot be borne.
  We find a mission
  to which we're sworn
  -or answer the call
  of Death's dark horn.
  Without a gleaning
  of purpose in life,
  we have no vision,
  we live in strife,
  -or let blood fall
  on a suicide knife.

  Dean Koontz

  Suicide, Fall, Suicidal

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• The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

  Horace

  Latin, Bulls, Fangs

  Horace, (2016). “The Complete Odes and Satires of Horace”, p.249, Princeton University Press

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• Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

  John Masefield

  Weather, Two, Sailing

  "A Tarpaulin Muster".

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• It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.

  Edith Wharton

  Rain, Character, Garden

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• all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is braking its early morn the taxi waiting he blowing his horn already i am so lonesome i could die so kiss me and smile for me tell me that you'll wait for me and hold me like you never let me go cause leaving on a jet plane don't know when ill be back again oh babe i hate to go there so many let you down so many time i played around i tell you know that don't mean a thing every plase i go i'll think of you every song i sing i'll sing for you.

  John Denver

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• Oh,' she said. 'I have never seen a Jew before. Can I see his horns?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Said, Jew

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

  Paul Auster

  Life, Bulls, World

  Paul Auster (1990). “The New York Trilogy”, p.132, Penguin

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• Blow your life through your horn.

  Arturo Sandoval

  Music, Blow, Jazz

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