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«Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.»
Author: Elmer Davis | Keywords: applause, booed, booing, boos, contribute, hisses, mingled, voter
«Humor is vague, runaway stuff that hisses around the fissures and crevices of the mind, like some sort of loose physic gas»
Author: Jonathan Miller (Actor, Film Director, Producer) | About: Humor | Keywords: crevice, crevices, gas, hisses, physic, runaway, runaways, vague
«Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell»
Author: Philip James Bailey (Poet) | Keywords: coal, From Hell, hissed, hisses, hissing
«Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.»
Author: Aesop (Author, Fabulist) | Keywords: applaud, applauding, applauds, hiss, hissed, hisses, imitation, imitations, real thing, The Real Thing
«And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: astonishment, Babylon, dragons, heaps, hissed, hisses, hissing, inhabitant
«Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.»
Author: Henry Miller (Author, Writer) | Keywords: approval, fickle, forgetfulness, hisses, hurls, illusive, oblivion, pinnacle, pinnacles, raises, whim
«Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (Author, Writer) | Keywords: gloom, hiss, hissed, hisses, sharp, sharps, suddenly
«An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | Keywords: altered, beamed, beaming, beams, dance, eye, gun, hissed, hisses, hissing, insult, In the Mood, kicking, kick out, kick up, kindness, loaded, loading, load up, mood, threaten
«He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Praise | Keywords: applauds, hisses, malice, oppressor, robber
«Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God»
Author: Voltaire (Philosopher, Writer) | About: God, Inspiration | Keywords: chosen, divine spirit, emit, emits, emitted, emitting, flatulence, hissed, hisses, Holy Spirit, inspiration, peculiar, the Holy Spirit
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