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Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.


Ada Huxtable

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Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE I figured, rather than hanging curtains I'd use stained glass,
JANE HUFF A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
ADA HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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ADA HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
ADA HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
ADA HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je...
ADA HUXTABLE When you live in a glass house,
buying curtains for the windows doesn't help.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li...
APURVA GAGLANI I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like T...
LIL' ROMEO [T]his machine will tell us the precise location of the three remaining tickets. It says, "I won't t...
WILLY WONKA Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of ...
OCTAVE MIRBEAU I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAK When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell...
OCTAVE MIRBEAU I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwo...
KIMBERLY NOVOSEL An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of d...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE This is more than a success story. It is a dream come true.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A discreet study in expensive nonostentation.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Let me give you a piece of advice, and please retain it. I’d hate to needlessly expel air for the ...
ADDISON MOORE The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.
TAMMY DUCKWORTH America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in tw...
JOHN BARRYMORE Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: we are our own Huns.
BERTRAND DE JOUVENAL Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
HONORE DE BALZAC A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be alter...
CHARLES EDISON It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up i...
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SUJIWO TEJO It would be superfluous to
drive us mad, my dear Watson
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Tanpa tetes air, tidak ada samudra; tanpa anak tangga, tidak ada tangga; tanpa hal kecil, tidak ada ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Our hearts, they need a mirror, Tessa. We see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. An...
CASSANDRA CLARE Water supply is a big deal -- second only to the air supply. If we ran out of water, that would be a...
CHARLES MEEKER I believe it is the most vivid and compelling demonstration that the war in Iraq is not only needles...
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DEE LESTARI If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give ...
SHELLEY BERMAN Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. Bu...
VIDAL SASSOON I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the ...
ROBERT HERRICK The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
LESLEY-ANNE DOWN You’re a girl?”
“Surprising, I know. Everyone thinks I’m older.
SARAH J. MAAS Fine, she wouldn't mind if Kaltain and Perrington met horrible deaths, but Dorian would be there. An...
SARAH J. MAAS How'd you remember my brother's name?" She shrugged, not quite understanding the gleam in his eye. "...
SARAH J. MAAS She had no idea when she'd stopped loathing him so much.
SARAH J. MAAS I'm the Captain of the Guard-I'm not exactly a catch for any of them." There was some sorrow in his ...
SARAH J. MAAS What terrified him even more was that he trusted her. And he didn't know what that said about himsel...
SARAH J. MAAS She lifted her eyes to his face, and found his gaze lined with silver. "Get up," was all he said.
SARAH J. MAAS Can I be honest with you?" Chaol leaned closer, and Celaena leaned to meet him as he whispered: "You...
SARAH J. MAAS She'd survived Endovier, yet she could still laugh.
SARAH J. MAAS Really? Are you going to ask him to be your partner?" Isabelle asked. "It's like cotillion, this par...
CASSANDRA CLARE Valentine whirled. Clary, lying half-conscious in the sand, her wrists and arms a screaming agony, s...
CASSANDRA CLARE She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was...
CASSANDRA CLARE And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous."

"Good," Simon said. "if you wa...
CASSANDRA CLARE Another benefit of this book would be if people give us their photograph collections, if they realiz...
ANN THOMPSON superfluous
VICTOR HUGO The fundamentals have become superfluous. None of the metals would be where they are today without t...
ANGUS MACMILLAN When he hit Ike [Hilliard] up that seam [46 yards and a touchdown on New York's first drive], I knew...
AMANI TOOMER We are spirits clad in veils.
CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.
BIBLE The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
VOLTAIRE The superfluous, a very necessary thing
VOLTAIRE Only humans can hurt one another, Ada thought; only humans falter and betray one another with a stun...
LIZ MOORE All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coinci...
KARL MARX Back then if you gave a mouse a cookie, he would ask you for a glass of milk. Nowadays if you give a...
GINA JAMMAL One would have argued that the reduction in supply would have made the bidding stronger.
JOHN LONSKI Most seniors are so overwhelmed that they need assistance. The process is needlessly complicated--a ...
DAN KOSKI It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare...
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would...
MAIMONIDES The remarks of visiting Australian Prime Minister John Howard on supply of uranium to India conveys ...
RAJEEV SHARMA Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Teknologi tertinggi yang ada di dunia ini adalah tubuh manusia. Komputer paling rumit sekaligus pali...
VICTORIA TUNGGONO Levels like that with benzene, our only concern would be lifetime consumption.
GEORGE PAULI All those reports prove my son died needlessly.
CINDY SHEEHAN Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
BILL OWEN If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. W...
NIGEL LYTHGOE The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing would make me happier than sitting in the bleachers at Fitch watching Jesse graduate some da...
ERIC BENKER He was done with politics and intrigue. He loved her, and no empire, no king, and no earthly fear wo...
SARAH J. MAAS I am a man, and men do not drink pink drinks. Now, be gone, woman, and fetch me something brown." Ja...
CASSANDRA CLARE What cracker is this same that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Modernisasi pada akhirnya memang suatu permainan kekuatan. Ada yang tergusur, ada yang menggusur. Ad...
GOENAWAN MOHAMAD Rituals give kids a sense of security in a fast-moving, unpredictable world, as well as memories the...
BETSY TAYLOR We pulled everything out of there — rugs, curtains, televisions.
ELOY BENDITO If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

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