Quotes - Vixen Phillips
Vixen Phillips:
Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose.
Go down into hell, if you must, but bring me back a rose.
Quotes - George Orwell
George Orwell:
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
Vocabulary - Lane Splitting
Lane Splitting:
Riding a motorcycle between two traffic lanes between cars.
There were a ton of cars on the roads during rush hour, so I started lane splitting to get ahead of the traffic.
Riding a motorcycle between two traffic lanes between cars.
There were a ton of cars on the roads during rush hour, so I started lane splitting to get ahead of the traffic.
Quotes - Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes:
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Quotes - William E. Gladstone
William E. Gladstone:
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
Idiom - Out to lunch
Out to lunch:
If someone is “out to lunch”, it means that they are “clueless” or just “have no idea what they doing or thinking”.
Her husband is cheating on her and she has no idea at all. She’s so out to lunch. It's sad to watch.
There is no way that little restaurant will succeed. It is in a terrible location and almost no customers will find it. The owner is really out to lunch. I hate to say it, but I’m guessing it will fail in 6 months or less.
Persian: بی خبر
If someone is “out to lunch”, it means that they are “clueless” or just “have no idea what they doing or thinking”.
Her husband is cheating on her and she has no idea at all. She’s so out to lunch. It's sad to watch.
There is no way that little restaurant will succeed. It is in a terrible location and almost no customers will find it. The owner is really out to lunch. I hate to say it, but I’m guessing it will fail in 6 months or less.
Persian: بی خبر
Quotes - Banri Hidaka
Banri Hidaka:
My feelings for you are like the stillness of the sand they make no sound as they're washed away.
My feelings for you are like the stillness of the sand they make no sound as they're washed away.
Quotes - Conor Oberst
Conor Oberst:
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Story - Eat Your Vegetables
Eat Your Vegetables:
The federal government, displaying even less sense than usual, has yielded to the French fry industry. Frozen French fries—sliced, fried in oil, and then packaged—are now approved as “fresh vegetables” by the US Department of Agriculture.
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The federal government, displaying even less sense than usual, has yielded to the French fry industry. Frozen French fries—sliced, fried in oil, and then packaged—are now approved as “fresh vegetables” by the US Department of Agriculture.
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Idiom - No Brainer
No Brainer:
If something is a “no brainer”, it means that it’s a “very easy decision“. It means that you do not need to think hard about the choice at all because the proper decision should be so obvious.
Let’s go to the Italian restaurant today because everything on the menu is half price for only today. We can go to the other restaurant another day. This is a no brainer.
Why don’t you date Jamie instead of Kate? Jamie is much more beautiful and she’s a lot friendlier as well. It should be a real no brainer.
If something is a “no brainer”, it means that it’s a “very easy decision“. It means that you do not need to think hard about the choice at all because the proper decision should be so obvious.
Let’s go to the Italian restaurant today because everything on the menu is half price for only today. We can go to the other restaurant another day. This is a no brainer.
Why don’t you date Jamie instead of Kate? Jamie is much more beautiful and she’s a lot friendlier as well. It should be a real no brainer.
Quotes - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt:
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Quotes - Nicholas Sparks
Nicholas Sparks:
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.
Quotes - Robert Frost
Robert Frost:
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
Quotes - Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton:
Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
Quotes - Rick Warren
Rick Warren:
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Vocabulary - Bisect
Bisect:
To divide something into two equal parts.
A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
Persian: دو نیم کردن
To divide something into two equal parts.
A long cobbled street bisects the town from east to west.
Persian: دو نیم کردن
Vocabulary - Citadel
Citadel:
A strong fort built in the past as a place where people could go for safety if their city was attacked; fortress.
The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.
Persian: قلعه
A strong fort built in the past as a place where people could go for safety if their city was attacked; fortress.
The town has a 14th century citadel overlooking the river.
Persian: قلعه
Vocabulary - Plush
Plush:
Very comfortable, expensive, and of good quality; plush.
Their casino is the plushest in town.
He took me out to a plush restaurant.
Persian: مجلل، اعیانی
Very comfortable, expensive, and of good quality; plush.
Their casino is the plushest in town.
He took me out to a plush restaurant.
Persian: مجلل، اعیانی
Poem - Softened by Time’s consummate plush By Emily Dickinson
Softened by Time’s consummate plush:
Softened by Time’s consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood’s citadel
And undermined the years!
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Softened by Time’s consummate plush,
How sleek the woe appears
That threatened childhood’s citadel
And undermined the years!
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Quotes - Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë:
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.
Quotes - Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers:
Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside.
Maybe we should always start everything from the inside and work to the outside, and not from the outside to the inside.
Vocabulary - Dissect
Dissect:
To examine something carefully in order to understand it.
In this book the lives of famous people are dissected.
Persian: بررسی کردن
To examine something carefully in order to understand it.
In this book the lives of famous people are dissected.
Persian: بررسی کردن
Quotes - Syrie James
Syrie James:
I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
I believe there is a kind of happiness to be found in every thing in life, in all that is good and pleasing, as well as in that which is sad or poignant.
Story - Victory Dance Leads to Death
Victory Dance Leads to Death:
A basketball game ended abruptly Saturday afternoon when 18-year-old Damon Miller was fatally shot at a recreation center. The gunman, who called himself Ace, ran south on Oak Street after the shooting and remains at large. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene by the paramedics. He died from two gunshot wounds to his chest. The paramedics did not arrive immediately because they were tied up at a four-car crash a mile away. This was the second such shooting during a basketball game, apparently by the same gunman.
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A basketball game ended abruptly Saturday afternoon when 18-year-old Damon Miller was fatally shot at a recreation center. The gunman, who called himself Ace, ran south on Oak Street after the shooting and remains at large. Miller was pronounced dead at the scene by the paramedics. He died from two gunshot wounds to his chest. The paramedics did not arrive immediately because they were tied up at a four-car crash a mile away. This was the second such shooting during a basketball game, apparently by the same gunman.
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Quotes - Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry:
You can't build your life around hurts from the past.
You can't build your life around hurts from the past.
Vocabulary - A Ticking time bomb
A Ticking time bomb:
A “ticking time bomb” basically means a situation that can happen at any time; something bad that will happen.
That man smokes too many cigarettes, drinks too much alcohol, eats too much junk food, and never exercises. His doctor is worried about his heart and told him that he’s basically a ticking time bomb unless he changes his lifestyle.
Many experts say that the economy is like a ticking time bomb. It’s OK now but it’s going to fail badly sometime in the near future. We just don’t know exactly when.
A “ticking time bomb” basically means a situation that can happen at any time; something bad that will happen.
That man smokes too many cigarettes, drinks too much alcohol, eats too much junk food, and never exercises. His doctor is worried about his heart and told him that he’s basically a ticking time bomb unless he changes his lifestyle.
Many experts say that the economy is like a ticking time bomb. It’s OK now but it’s going to fail badly sometime in the near future. We just don’t know exactly when.
Quotes - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare:
I wasted time, and now doth time wastes me.
I wasted time, and now doth time wastes me.
Quotes - René Descartes
René Descartes:
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen.
I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen.
Poem - One day is there of the series By Emily Dickinson
One day is there of the series:
One day is there of the series
Termed Thanksgiving day,
Celebrated part at table,
Part in memory.
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One day is there of the series
Termed Thanksgiving day,
Celebrated part at table,
Part in memory.
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Quotes - Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein:
(In reaction to Hiroshima): If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.
(In reaction to Hiroshima): If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.