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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mind, Snow, Advice

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

Work, Today, Danger

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
Pablo Picasso

Down, Die, Around

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
Albert Pike

Faith, Reason, Begins

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Quentin Crisp

Police, Level, However

Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
Jack Welch

Company, Five, Later

Honour sinks where commerce long prevails.
Oliver Goldsmith

Long, Commerce, Honour

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
Harlan Coben

Real, Friendly, Together

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Walter Bagehot

Long, Honor, Commerce

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.
Courteney Cox

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.
David Walliams

Men, Heart, Someone

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.
Walter Savage Landor

Great, Poetry, Hand

When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years.
George Strait

Time, Best, Together

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.
Robert Smithson

Time, History, Art

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.
Jhonen Vasquez

Experience, Person, Brain

There's something about doing theatre in London - it sinks a little bit deeper into your soul as an actor. It's something about the tradition of theatre, about performing on the West End stage.
Christian Slater

End, Soul, Theatre

The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.
George William Norris

War, Government, Reason

In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.
Eddie Murphy

Good, Job, Together

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
Georg Trakl

Stars, Year, Head

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!
Richard Grant

Heart, Read, Actor

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