The sense of impending disaster hung over the garden like a chandelier.
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Antal Szerb
She's singing to-night to bring the chandelier down!
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Gaston Leroux
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
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Peter York
Please select a card. No I don't have to see the card...I've already seen this trick...
Vladimir Putin is a smart guy. I don't like him, smart guy. He is going to advance the cause of Russia until he hits a brick wall. He's hit a brick wall in a few areas. I think we need to make it clear that your growth of the former Soviet Union is over. You can be a great power that's respected. Fine. But this is not going to be the old Soviet Union.
It's bad for your brain not to unplug.
If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
If there's one thing I can't bear, it's people who are wise during the event.
Do you know that every unbeliever is filled with a demon spirit?
Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.
I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
My voice is my gift. And Pops had me using it in the right way. I had many offers to sing pop, to sing rhythm and blues. Pops said "Mavis, this record company want to give you a million dollars." I said, "No daddy, I want to sing with the family." And I did. I never wanted to branch out by myself. But I've had to now. It's my mission. I've been left here to do it. And I'm grateful.
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.
