#appeal

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You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor.


Alan Lomax


#away #could #dying #get #governor

The reason they look the way they do is that the first drawing I did of them was really small so I didn't draw fingers, nose, ears, etc and this drawing had a certain appeal that I really liked.


Craig McCracken


#certain #did #draw #drawing #ears

You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.


Conor Cruise O'Brien


#certainty #comfortable #down #nations #safely

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.


Ellen Ochoa


#calculus #college #continue #encouraged #go

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.


Steven Pinker


#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.


Steven Pinker


#blank #blank slate #doctrine #equals #fact

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.


Bertrand Russell


#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.


Allen Tate


#am #appeal #authority #i #i am

I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun.


Steven Soderbergh


#appealed #criminal #fun #i #just

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.


Sissy Spacek


#appeals #before #dozen #dwarfed #else