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«I sang as one / Who on a tilting deck sings / To keep men's courage up, though the wave hangs / That shall cut off their sun.»
«But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings backwards and forwards, / And tilts up his chair.»
«It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.»
«I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.»
«I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.»
«When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky»
«To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: amuck, tilt, tilted, tilting, tilts
«Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet»
«The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscapes»