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• In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday, Mardi Gras, where men give women beads in the respectful and post-feminist desire to see their naked boobies.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Fall, Flower

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• I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.

  Chris Rose

  Home, Land, Essence

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Taken, Dancing, Down And

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2897, Delphi Classics

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• The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Perfection, Clarity

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 19, 2013

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• And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Sea, Voice, Steps

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.

  Scott O'Dell

  Fun, Animal, Night

  Scott O'Dell (2016). “Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition”, p.106, Univ of California Press

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• SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Men, Hands

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Don't sit and wait - For the world on a plate - (It's not a stroke of luck or chance) - Just draw a bead on that sucker, and drive!

  Todd Rundgren

  Waiting, Luck, World

  Song: Drive, Album: The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect

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• You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a bead on him and they shoot a missile at him and he blows up and dies, and that's not what Godzilla is. Godzilla is supposed to be a thing that you can't possibly kill, no matter how hard you try.

  Brad Warner

  Army, Blow, Trying

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I have the mohawk,even though people still call it the mohawk I say "I don't wanna be disrespectful to the Mohican Indians but there is a tribe in Africa called the Mandinka warriors." They're in the west coast of Africa in the country of Mali.I was reading National Geographic Magazine back in 1977, and I saw the warrior standing there with his spear and his beads around his neck and whatnot and the stuff on his ankles. That was what gave me the idea, I said "Wow, let me bring respect to them," so basically what I wear is called a Mandinka cut.

  Mr. T

  Country, Reading, Warrior

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

  Terry Eagleton

  Reading, Necklaces, Process

  Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.111, John Wiley & Sons

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• I really try hard to keep a good bead on the pulse of the team. Am I pushing the right buttons? When do I need to be harder on them? When do I need to have a little more fun with them? It's all about timing. The more I can do that the better chance we have for these guys to be hitting on all cylinders and reach their potential.

  Pete Lembo

  Fun, Team, Guy

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

  Hermann Hesse

  Player, Glasses, Games

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

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• blue bead on the wick,
  there's that in me that
  burns and chills, blackening
  my heart with its soot,
  I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
  but a different god.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• slowly the pale
  dew-beads of light
  lapped up from flowers
  can thicken,
  darken to gold:
  honey of the human.

  Denise Levertov

  Flower, Light, Gold

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

  Bernadette Devlin

  Catholic, Rosary, Rosary Beads

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• If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.

  Will Durant

  Book, Eye, Night

  Will Durant (1931). “Adventures in Genius”

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• In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

  Dean Koontz

  Heart, Bridges, Space

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

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• The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Hero, Wine, Men

  Lawrence Durrell (1978). “Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra”, Viking Pr

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• Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a rosary with us for doing japa. A rosary can be made of 108, 54, 27 or 18 beads of rudraksha, tulsi, crystal, sandalwood, gems, etc, with one 'guru bead'. We should resolve to chant a certain number of rosaries (rounds) daily.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Numbers, Meditation, Rosary

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• I tell you what, I don't like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I've fought 'em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.

  Kit Carson

  Men, Skins, Ems

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• Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Essence, Cups, Pleasure

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I judge property myself by its net earning power; that is the only rule I have been able to get.... This whole island [Manhattan] was once bought for a few strings of beads. But now you will find this property valued by its earning power, by its rent power, and that is the way to value a railroad or telegraph.

  Jay Gould

  Islands, Judging, Railroads

  "Jay Gould: A Character Sketch" by William T. Stead, in The Review of Reviews. Testimony to the New York Senate Committee on Labor and Education, February 1893.

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• Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Snakes, Historical

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• The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Rosary, Way

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