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Douglas William Jerrold

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WILLIAM SHARP The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.
WILLIAM SHARP Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delightOf the Valleys of Dream.
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WILLIAM SHARP I like the way you always manage to state the obvious with a sense of real discovery.
GORE VIDAL We weren't sharp, ... There's no way around that.
CARSON PALMER Byron was very, very sharp.
JACK DEL RIO Necessity's sharp pinch!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…
DAVID DRAKE I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their ac...
RAYMOND CHANDLER One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.
FRANK HERBERT Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I’m a happy man.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
OVID Get sleep....get sharp!!
CARY S. KART Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.
GEORGE-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON A mind is only as sharp as the knife, that strives to cut through thoughts
too tough for the bl...
ANTHONY LICCIONE That was his first start and he was sharp.
CHARLES DAVIS His training has kept him sharp,
JOHN ELLINGER I had to be sharp right away. We definitely deserve to be here right now.
CHRIS WHITLEY You'd have to go back at least 10 years, sometimes 20 years, to find such sharp colds.
PATRICK GALOIS The story is very cruel and very sharp,
ISABELLE HUPPERT Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
GORE VIDAL I could just tell he was sharp, articulate ... very personable and charming.
BILL THOMAS The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.
MENANDER The recent run-up has been too sharp.
ATUL HATWAR Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.
CASSANDRA CLARE There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight l...
ANTONI GAUDI They stayed sharp and focused.
DENNIS HOGUE Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.
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LLOYD C. DOUGLAS We need the Marines to be as sharp as possible.
BRIAN JACKSON The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
BUDDHA The sharp rise in wages is a two-sided sword.
JOEL NAROFF The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
BIBLE The edges of my world are sharp, and they cut.
LESLIE MIKLOSY The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. AMMONS Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
HENRY ROLLINS I just hope my army is sharp.
DUSTY BAKER Keep your claws short and knives sharp
AISHA WARIS Knives are sharp, but are equally confusing.
NATHAN HASSALL We were coming from a sharp increase.
NELSON ORTIZ Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.
EUGENE SUE Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. MENCKEN It beats getting poked in the eye with a sharp stick.
DAVID STERN Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
PROVERB The mind is like a razor; it only works when sharp.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence.
STANLEY CHOU Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.
VERA NAZARIAN I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristin...
GILLIAN FLYNN They are sharp, clear, and beautiful. I am very happy.
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ENID BLYTON I think he is [a frontrunner] now because he's hasn't run for so long and he's so sharp.
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BRETT TOMKO We have to break sharp, ... We have to break cleanly. We can't stumble. We can't do anything. We hav...
STEVE SHERMAN Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things
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DODIE SMITH One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
SOURCE UNKNOWN Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thought our penalty killing was very sharp,
PATRICK ROY Her mind was very sharp and never aged.
SANDRA ALLEN Your fangs aren't as sharp as your tongue.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS His off-speed and breaking ball were sharp.
DAVE LARSON There's pretty sharp cutoff of where it's snowing.
JOE VILLANI Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.
JOE GODINHO The thing that surprised me was how sharp we were on offense in the morning session. Both JV and var...
JEFF BOGER I feel the team is back focused, with belief, disciplined and sharp.
ARSENE WENGER I don’t need immortality. The fear of death keeps a girl sharp.
C.M. HAYDEN Virtue often trips and falls on the sharp-edges rock of poverty.
EUGENE SUE The competition really kept them sharp because they knew they couldn't relax.
JOVAN VAVIC We cannot decide if she is blunt or sharp
JUDY JOHNSON Today's sharp decline in jobless claims is great news.
DANIEL JESTER sharp, dry wit and his brash dealings with contestants.
LAUREN CORRAO It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
GEORGE W. BUSH Young buyers tend to get raked over the coals by really sharp salespeople.
JEFF OSEROFF I like the Japanese knives, I like French knives. Whatever's sharp.
WOLFGANG PUCK The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD I can be kind of razor sharp in my disapproval.
JANE LYNCH He was probably not as sharp as he normally is.
CORY ANDERSON His mind was as clear and as sharp as ever,
RAMSEY CLARK They have sharp beaks. You'd probably require a few stitches.
TONY LACASSE Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER A dull ax is more dangerous than a sharp one.
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GARY SPEED Their bill is not sharp. They don't suck at all.
FRED BASSETT Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.
VERONICA ROTH Sorrow for a husband is like a pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
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WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS stirs people to anger
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Every time you pick up the newspaper you read about one company merging with another company. Of cou...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The truth is that a vast restructuring of our society is needed if remedies are to become available ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I learned that the richness of life is found in adventure. . . . It develops self-reliance and indep...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. . . . We find no such Const...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS I can see you've done a lot of work, but you are off base here. If and when you get appointed to the...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, th...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best ...
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS Common sense often makes good law.
WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS