Wordgrove Post & Review

THIS EDITION:  enter

Quoted In The Grove:

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
~David Lehman

Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus and shopping lists, you observe road signs, and so on. Then you enter your study, where language exists in quite another form – as the stuff of patterned artifice.
~Martin Amis

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
~John Updike

EndQuote:
At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are.
~Czeslaw Milosz

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Exercise Prompt for 01/28:  change

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Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it’s not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
~Bette Davis

If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other’s nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
~Havelock Ellis

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It’s one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the ‘in sickness and in health’ part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you’re tested. Your resilience is tested.
~Patti Davis

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A man’s heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.
~Helen Rowland

Unlike ‘real relationships’, ‘virtual relationships’ are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.
~Zygmunt Bauman

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.
~Geoffrey Fisher

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I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it’s nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.
~Megan Fox

A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I’ve come to terms with the fact that I’ll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
~Adam Levine

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We’re living longer and expecting more from life; the success of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,’ and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we’re up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.
~Deborah Moggach

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It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body that he can take possession of another human being, so he must labor upon her body, he must enter her body, to make his claim.
~Joyce Carol Oates

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
~Milan Kundera

Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
~Dada Vaswani

I think that freedom means freedom for everyone. As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.
~Dick Cheney

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.
~Sting

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Posted From The Grove

Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
~Claude Bernard

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: ‘Ye must have faith.’
~Max Planck

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
~Herbert Spencer

Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
~Karl Jaspers

To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn’t apparent because it’s shrouded by sensation and delusion.
~Bodhidharma

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
~Havelock Ellis

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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
~Paracelsus

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We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
~Lyndon B Johnson

When I climb into my car, I enter my destination into a GPS device, whose spatial memory supplants my own. I have photographs to store the images I want to remember, books to store knowledge and now, thanks to Google, I rarely have to remember anything more than the right set of search terms to access humankind’s collective memory.
~Joshua Foer

Neanderthal Brains: Bigger, Not Necessarily Better
~Discover magazine article title
(We may have surrendered former brain functions to books and machines)

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I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
~Steve Jobs

I will not carry a thing to its culmination simply because I entered in. I may have said I wanted it, but I will have the courage to say, I have changed my mind.
~Muriel Strode

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Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn’t enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.
~Robert Ballard

Some scientists think it may be possible to capture a wormhole and enlarge it many trillions of times to make it big enough for a human or even a spaceship to enter.
~Stephen Hawking

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.
~Dan Quayle

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Surveys show that many talented and committed young people are reluctant to enter teaching for the long haul because they think the profession is low-paying and not prestigious enough.
~Arne Duncan

Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
~Arne Duncan

No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors’ prison.
~Michael Moore

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
~John Ciardi

Experts say that if children can’t read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
~Dirk Kempthorne

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
~Lady Bird Johnson

School is such an encouraging and safe environment. It’s filled with idealism and just really working on your craft. When you enter the business world — where art meets commerce — it can become quite depressing.
~Troy Garity

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Unlike with the majority of library books, when you enter a term into a search engine there is no guarantee that what you will find is authoritative, accurate or even vaguely true.
~Howard Rheingold

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
~Pat Buchanan

Criticism in the universities, I’ll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It’s Stalinism without Stalin.
~Harold Bloom

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
~Khalil Gibran

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~Nathan Gray:  Dying Words Aren’t What I Imagined
https://medium.com/spiralbound/dying-words-arent-what-i-imagined-60d0f7f90cc5

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~Omeleto:  Martha   (16:19)   an entrance, otherwise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ93vvc9Q_k&t=369s

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~Nilo Batle:  Entrance   (1:58)   life wants…
https://vimeo.com/174255114

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If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.
~Peter Benchley

We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.
~Peter Benchley

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
~E M Forster

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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At home in Ghaziabad, everyone is a pure vegetarian. In fact, when I want to cook non-veg there, my mum shoos me out on the terrace where I have my cooking utensils. I’m told categorically that whatever non-veg or egg, etc., that I have to cook, I should do upstairs and not enter her kitchen at all.
~Suresh Raina

No pills, not even aspirin, and certainly no supplements ever enter my mouth – everything I need comes from my fish and vegetarian diet, which incorporates many different kinds of fruit and vegetables every week.
~David H Murdock

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I think of animals more as spirits that come and go. They enter our lives at a particular time and they leave at a particular time. The whole glorious history of animals with people is about joy and connection. It’s about loving this creature and letting this creature love you.
~Jon Katz

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
~Caroline Knapp

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No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
~Calvin Coolidge

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
~Paul Ryan

Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.
~Reed Hundt

That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
~Barbara Ehrenreich

If we enter into the kind of world that Google likes, the world that Google wants, it’s a world where information is copied so much on the Internet that nobody knows where it came from anymore, so there can’t be any rights of authorship.
~Jaron Lanier

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
~Vince Cable

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
~Demosthenes

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Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.
~Yanis Varoufakis

Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses… on your powers, instead of your problems.
~Paul J Meyer

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
~James Allen

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Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‘Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?’ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
~Charles Bukowski

There are two rules I’ve always tried to live by: turn left, if you’re supposed to turn right; go through any door that you’re not supposed to enter. It’s the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
~Malcolm Mclaren

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
~Theodore Roosevelt

Russia and other countries’ declining population worries? Perhaps needy, initially, but America is where the world’s most dynamic pioneers and dreamers want to bring their productivity. The emigrants’ good is to add their labor, their creativity, their loyalty and mongrel blood to our tax base. Color doesn’t enter that equation.
~author unknown

Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.
~Morihei Ueshiba

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§ VIDEO:

It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being.
~Conrad Veidt

I think I’m very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.
~John Berger

We’re all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can’t. Well, there’s also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.
~Janet Jackson

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All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.
~William Shakespeare

With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest indication that the child’s problems will never be important enough for a television movie.
~Nora Ephron

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I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate reality that you can enter into for half an hour every week.
~Simon Bird

I write for television, I plan the story on whiteboard wallpaper in my office, using a system created by the American writer Dan Harmon. It’s remarkably simple: a character wants something; they enter a new world and adapt to it; they get what they want, re-enter the old world and change.
~Graham Linehan

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There’s a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer.
~Ralph Fiennes

You’re creating a different world and the actor’s job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.
~Christian Bale

One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people’s lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
~Sally Hawkins

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With the CGI, suddenly there’s a thousand enemies instead of six – the army goes off into the horizon. You don’t need that. The audience loses its relationship with the threat on the screen. That’s something that’s consistently happening and it makes these movies like video games and that’s a soulless enterprise. It’s all kinetics without emotion
~Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
~Dirk Benedict

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I think you’ll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.
~Tom Mison

It’s such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It’s hard for fiction to compete with that.
~Jonathan Demme

What’s nice about what we have is when you enter the set, the world of film, it becomes this real cocoon, very different from all the publicity. That’s the fun part.
~Mira Nair

It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
~Rhys Ifans

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A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure.
~Henri Matisse

When I work, I’m thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards. But it’s inconceivable to me that I could experience things and not have them enter into my painting.
~Adolph Gottlieb

It’s a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
~Nathalie Sarraute

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~Omeleto:  Would You Like To Try Again?   (10:01)   entering the do-over door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FalmuTH_CtY

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~Kevin Therson:  Door to Door   (9:00)   entering a future memory’s door
https://vimeo.com/378389622

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~Caroline Mackintosh:  The Doors   (9:21)   entering problematic doors NSW
https://vimeo.com/572189621

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~straight 8:  crumbs   (2:37)   enter zany, depart by the floor door
https://vimeo.com/660521773

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I have been refused entrance on the buses because I would not pay my fare at the front and go around to the rear door to enter. That was the custom if the bus was crowded up to the point where the white passengers would start occupying.
~Rosa Parks

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party – usually at a gathering in a home – where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.
~Michael Eric Dyson

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
~Saul Alinsky

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute cliche of people of color.
~Rege-Jean Page

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?
~Tim Reid

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.
~Nelson Mandela

As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
~Kapil Dev

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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It’s like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
~Bill Lee

It’s not about how much money I’m getting paid. It’s just a love of one-on-one combat. I feel I’m at home. I love the ring entrances, the talking. I’m the master of it all.
~Tyson Fury

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
~Mike Tyson

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.
~Don Kardong

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I tell you that the coaches are like cardiologists – they have to enter the player in their hearts so that the message reaches them.
~Mikel Arteta

When I’m asked to define football, I always talk about emotions, the heart, love. It’s something you feel deep down inside when you enter a stadium, raise your eyes, and look at the stands, the fans coming in.
~Unai Emery

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.
~Bill Lee

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Every time I enter the field, it’s like, ‘Smriti, you have to score.’ And I love that responsibility.
~Smriti Mandhana

I hate losing and cricket being my first love, once I enter the ground it’s a different zone altogether and that hunger for winning is always there.
~Sachin Tendulkar

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I think if you look at NXT, the one guy who seems like he would belong in a WrestleMania main event is Nakamura because of the aura and the buzz that he gets. He is able to grab the attention of people who don’t really know who he is right away with his mannerisms and entrance – by the time he gets to the ring, you are kind of hooked.
~Kevin Owens

Wrestling has a tremendous entrance plan. You come in, and it’s, ‘Boy, here you are. It’s rock and roll; it’s wonderful.’ It’s got no exit plan.
~Roddy Piper

If you are watching television and two guys come out and you are already able to tell what the finish of that match is based on entrances alone, that’s a problem.
~Shawn Spears

It wasn’t until later in my career that I really focused on the importance on making an entrance.
~Finn Balor

When that glass broke and ‘Stone Cold’ was making an entrance, and that roof blew off that building, that sends you higher than life or anything that I know of. It’s an adrenaline rush you can’t explain.
~Stone Cold Steve Austin

I have the best entrance in all of professional wrestling for crying out loud.
~Marty Scurll

I always really enjoyed Edge’s entrance theme. Also Stone Cold. WWE once asked me in an interview, if I had to change my entrance music, whose would I choose, and I said Edge. So they created a video of me using that song, and I was like, ‘I’m in love.’
~Paige

Entrance music doesn’t make a difference.
~Rory MacDonald

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I have a great deal of respect for any women that will enter the world of little boys of sports.
~Jennifer Garner

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§ MUSIC:

Music – it’s the only thing that can enter your system, your mind, your heart, without your permission.
~Emmanuel Jal

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
~Ludwig van Beethoven

To capture sound is to isolate a moment, canonize it, enter it into the historical register.
~Adam Mansbach

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.
~Brian Eno

Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.
~Bruno Dumont

I’ve always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don’t think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.
~Justin Townes Earle

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Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?
~John Philip Sousa

He moves as if entranced in a tango with the Universe.
~Francesco Garri

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When I was younger, I used to say, ‘I’m not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.’ For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It’s a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.
~Arca

I think we’re about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
~Brian Eno

Songs of different moods are like keys, which help me enter the world of my book’s characters.
~Amish Tripathi

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I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.
~Bryan Adams

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.
~Eddie Van Halen

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn’t. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.
~Neil Diamond

We’ve created rigidities at the entrance point in artisanal occupations.
~Emmanuel Macron

To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~Giorgio de Chirico

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Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like… you sort of summon them and it’s like allowing the universe to enter your heart in an entirely different way to what it normally does. It’s like inviting that energy of the universe to enter into your craft in a way where it has a meaning.
~Ryan Adams

Creativity is a mansion. If you’re empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that’s full.
~F Gary Gray

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No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they’ll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
~Twyla Tharp

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion – lots of ritual, lots of ceremony… We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.
~Rob Sheffield

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~Klaus Günter Neumann:  Wonderland By Night

~Bert Kaempfert   (3:14)   entering the cosmopolis, once to see, once to listen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d13fR9MOZZE

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~Engelbert Humperdinck:   (3:00)   lyrics as syrup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcFA54bcQMk

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~Floyd Cramer   (3:07)    haunting piano, high vocals, a lonely sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akBVICC1KA0

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~Post Modern Jukebox:  Don’t Stop Believing   (4:21)   entering the new year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UngXu2zwF9E

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~Jeff Pevar & Inger Nova:  Groove Sensation   (5:27)   entering the stone house studio, Oregon homegrown
https://vimeo.com/468038488

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To become a mother is to learn a whole language — to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born — and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
~Rachel Cusk

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.
~Pope Paul VI

Once I had a daughter and I had a wife I knew I was going to enter a completely different world that I’d never known before.
~Mick Hucknall

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.
~Alice Walker

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One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds – masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you’re going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.
~Pamela Meyer Whenever

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
~Anne Sullivan

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Broccoli, when overboiled, produces a sulfuric stench that causes children to gag the instant they enter the house.
~Kate Christensen

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many ‘trees’ they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.
~Gwyneth Paltrow

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I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you’re 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life. Your innocent understanding of the world moves towards something messier and more complicated, and once it does you can never go back. ~Khaled Hosseini

As my children leave the protected parameters of the bay called childhood and enter the wavier seas of adolescence, I’m starting to get seasick.
~Kristin Armstrong

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
~Doris Lessing

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Imagine it’s 1981. You’re an artist, in love with art, smitten with art history. You’re also a woman, with almost no mentors to look to; art history just isn’t that into you. Any woman approaching art history in the early eighties was attempting to enter an almost foreign country, a restricted and exclusionary domain that spoke a private language.
~Jerry Saltz

Women are always told, ‘You’re not going to make it, its too difficult, you can’t do that, don’t enter this competition, you’ll never win it,’ — they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.
~Zaha Hadid

Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task — say, solving math problems — men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.
~Sendhil Mullainathan

At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn’t enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It’s not competitive with men. It’s a complementary contribution.
~Barbara Hepworth

The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars
~Georgia Douglas Johnson

For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
~Sally Ride

The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement… and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
~Erica Jong

I didn’t enter Miss S.A. because I thought I was the most beautiful woman in S.A., I entered because it’s one of the few platforms that give women the ability to lead and I knew I had a powerful voice and message to send out.
~Zozibini Tunzi

Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
~Olivia Wilde

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I don’t enter, I’m entered. It’s up to someone else. It’s up to them.
~Albert Finney

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?
~Thomas Jefferson

Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents’ worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don’t know is whether they have more to fear from their friends.
~Nancy Gibbs

I did not enter the industry to create a certain image. People happened to see me as the friend/sister/daughter next door. I like that association very much. It’s close to what I am in real life. As for films, I just focus on the job.
~Kajal Aggarwal

I don’t feel ‘vibes’ when I enter a building – don’t feel the previous owners looking down on me. But I do know when a place feels friendly. ~Penelope Keith

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I know that marriage is a legal and religious alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open.
~George Bernard Shaw

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
~Elizabeth Kenny

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don’t mind, but he has it in his back pocket.
~Don Rickles

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
~Godfried Danneels

Web sites are designed to keep young people from using the keyboard, except to enter in their parents’ credit card information.
~Douglas Rushkoff

It’s official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that’s what everybody thinks he said.
~David Letterman

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.
~Douglas Feaver

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It’s the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children’s books.
~Berkeley Breathed

A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.
~Dean Ambrose

For any politician who didn’t enter office a wealthy man, nothing says ‘I take bribes’ like a Rolex watch.
~Timothy Noah

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It’s a coping mechanism.
~Daniel Kaluuya

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All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
~Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
~Henry Miller

At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold of death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It’s just that simple.
~Gordon B Hinckley

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I have watched patients stand and gaze longingly toward the city they in all likelihood will never enter again. It means liberty and life; it seems so near, and yet heaven is not further from hell.
~Nellie Bly

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?
~Scott Reed

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
~John Hines

It is like visiting one’s funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
~Harold Brodkey

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
~William Butler Yeats

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~Anatole France

Many a man, having begun to be intemperate at thirty, enters at sixty or upwards upon a career of self-restoration… I now enter upon my climacteric year sixty-three. Lord, help me to improve that short minute of time which yet remains.
~Richard Illidge

You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind, guarding your back. Sit at the table before me. Please, sample the tastiest morsels while I sit quietly. My desire is that you go first, in every occasion of earthly life. Only once will I go before you, And that will be at my last moment. For when death claims us, you must go last. Because I can’t live one second without you.
~Jean Sasson

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.
~James Anthony Froude

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I saw ‘The Exorcist’ at the cinema when I was quite young, maybe 14. When I went back home, my mum and dad weren’t in, so I had to wait for them on the main road. I were too scared to enter the house.
~Sean Bean

Everyone’s frightened. It’s how you deal with that fear. It’s very, very powerful. And what you’ve got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that’s a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk. ~Jimmy Iovine

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
~Tecumseh

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.
~Bernie Siegel

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.
~Isabel Allende

Because at bottom, I’m interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people’s heads.
~Kevin Patterson

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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
~John Locke

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
~Stokely Carmichael

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
~Douglas MacArthur

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.
~Edward Lampert

As soon as man enters into a state of society he loses the sense of his weakness; equality ceases, and then commences the state of war.
~Charles de Secondat

Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious criminals enter the market to make astronomical profits, and addicts rob and steal to get money to pay the inflated prices for their drugs.
~Michael Badnarik

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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
~Niccolo Machiavelli

Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
~Victor Davis Hanson

It is a grave matter to enter a war,
without adequate military preparation;
it may prove fatal to come into peace,
without moral and religious preparation.
~Louis Finkelstein

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
~William C Kirby

I am bitterly opposed to my country entering the war, but if, notwithstanding my opposition, we do enter it, all of my energy and all of my power will be behind our flag in carrying it on to victory.
~George William Norris

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I have a scheme for stopping war. It’s this – no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.
~Will Rogers

I know I will be severely criticized by the interventionists in America when I say we should not enter a war unless we have a reasonable chance of winning.
~Charles Lindbergh

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Strip the proud nobility of their bloated estates, reduce them to a level with plain republicans, send forth to labor, and teach their children to enter the workshops or handle the plow, and you will thus humble proud traitors.
~Thaddeus Stevens

We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic our forefathers created, or will we allow it to be annihilated by those who hate America, its history, and all it stands for?
~Augustus Sol Invictus

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.
~George William Russell

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party; it left me.
~Charlie Crist

What I do know is that writing is the thing I am best at, and I don’t have the stomach, the ability, the strength or the courage to enter the political arena. And I think writing can be a political act, if only to let those people accountable know they are being watched. Literature can be a conscience.
~Miguel Syjuco

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You don’t enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.
~Dennis Skinner

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
~Donald Rumsfeld

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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
~John Hodgman

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.
~Martin Van Buren

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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.
~Tahar Ben Jelloun

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
~Wayne Dyer

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There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. ~Walt Whitman

We live in a country where posting ‘Let’s riot or something bruv!’ on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while writing a column saying we should bomb Syria is practically an entrance exam for public intellectuals.
~Frankie Boyle

If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on – it’s all the same.
~Edward Snowden

The beauty of our court system is that anybody can enter the court and sue. Uh, you have to be appointed to be in the Executive Branch. You have to be elected to be in the Legislative Branch, but anybody can go into court.
~Dick Morris

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If the American government can’t stand behind the dollar, the world’s benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
~Adam Davidson

What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.
~Jean Baudrillard

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Once you are a victim of a bombing, you enter a risk group to which they will not sell insurance.
~Ernst Zundel

One good way of measuring the mood in Israel is just how alert or relaxed the guards at every restaurant entrance appear to be.
~Elliott Abrams

We made our entrance into Paris. As for honors, we received all that we could possibly imagine; but they, though very well in their way, were not what touched me most. What was really affecting was the tenderness and earnestness of the poor people, who, in spite of the taxes with which they are overwhelmed, were transported with joy at seeing us. (When reminded of the people’s hunger and lack of bread) …Let them eat cake.
~Marie Antoinette

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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
~Jack Kemp

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
~Nancy Gibbs

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Liberals have a quaint and touching faith that truth is on their side and an even quainter faith that journalists are on the side of truth.
~P J O’Rourke

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.
~Julien Green

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.
~Walter Isaacson

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business – which at least does us all some good.
~Stephen Fry

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
~Jim Hightower

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
~C Northcote Parkinson

I can’t enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
~William Morris

I have no interest in owning a football club; I don’t play golf; I don’t like horseracing and I’d rather become a professional bungee jumper than enter politics.
~Lloyd Dorfman

I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.
~Sreenivasan

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.
~Sherry Turkle

I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.
~N R Narayana Murthy

If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
~Isaac D’Israeli

Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.
~David Ignatius

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter – Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.
~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
~Oriana Fallaci

I’d rather talk to people about their personal spiritual practices or what they believe love is. I’m born to do that. Could I enter into the political realm and dive into that? Sure, but I don’t think I would want to do that.
~Alanis Morissette

I left a world in which I was a queen to enter one in which I’m a human being.
~Brigitte Bardot

When you enter the realm of politics, you don’t enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
~Wyclef Jean

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
~Ami Ayalon

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
~Toni Morrison

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@Writers Platform

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don’t and live in a world I can only enter through words.
~Sarah Addison Allen

I think that’s what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
~Ron Rash

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Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
~John Barton

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
~John Keats

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When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
~Andrew Coyle Bradley

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
~Caroline Gordon

In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author… I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
~Leslie Banks

I’m a very lucky man. It’s a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
~Wallace Shawn

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In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned — or the very brilliant — dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person’s work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
~Joanne Harris

Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
~W H Auden

The character of the artist doesn’t enter into the nature of the art.
~Lucian Freud

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The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character’s head any time he chooses.
~Arthur Herzog

Each language has its own take on the world. That’s why a translation can never be absolutely exact, and therefore, when you enter another language and speak with its speakers, you become a slightly different person; you learn a different sort of world.
~Kate Grenville

It’s an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel — it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.
~Michael Trucco

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A tincture of this world’s reality would enter the other world… while this world would be subtly altered too, changed in status by the knowledge that it had an outside.
~Munson Havens

It is like entering upon a new stage of life, having a new world before us from which to receive, and upon which to make impressions.
~Robert Brault

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We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.
~Marco Tempest

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people’s lives, the lives of people you don’t know, and you want to know what’s going to happen to them.
~Vikram Seth

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There’s a half-conscious state you enter when you’re actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it’s the only place where you even are a writer.
~John Jeremiah Sullivan

When I enter that higher-order space that’s required to write, I’m a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it’s ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.
~Junot Diaz

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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
~Ian Mcewan

You might say that when you step inside, you’re entering a honorific space, but that’s something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
~Thom Mayne

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
~Yoshio Taniguchi

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The world is filled with archaic objects – mailboxes which look like alarm boxes, banks which look like places to break out of rather than places to enter.
~Raymond Loewy

Each year, tens of millions of museumgoers walk through the entrance of the Getty, or the Metropolitan or the Prado or the Hermitage, and never consider the possibility of having to arbitrate for themselves the authenticity of what they have come to see.
~Peter Landesman

Outside museums, in noisy public squares, people look at people. Inside museums, we leave that realm and enter what might be called the group-mind, getting quiet to look at art.
~Jerry Saltz

Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
~George Lois

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§ GLASS TABLE:

~bckpackr: excerpt • Trip to Greece (conclusion)

Sure enough, the village of Skala – just Skala – existed!

In reality, it was more like a sand-road leading to a settlement of about 40 houses that were just a kilometer from the beach. The houses were ramshackle and wooden like an old western ghost-town; In fact, that’s *exactly* what it looked like, but the most beautiful thing about Skala, was that tourism hadn’t discovered this amazing little idyll!

When I stood on that beach, it was the cleanest, bluest and wildest waves of the Mediterranean that I had ever seen! It was deserted perfection! Looking to my left and right, there was not one house, not one hotel, no people, nothing but empty sand and waves as far as the eye could see!

It was paradise!

Standing with my back to the wildest, bluest waves I’d never imagined and looking inland, the view, except for the few houses of Skala, was of sand and foot-high grass, browned in the sun and looking like a sea of shimmering pale gold, as far as the eye could see!

All else was blue sky and summer wind! There was no sign of ‘civilization’ here whatsoever!

I spent two days there, asking questions and enduring the xenophobia of a suspicious bar-owner (everyone else was open, warm and friendly), until at last I found some people who had met and known my brother!

They told me that he had left Skala just two days before I got there, because the Olympics were being held in Barcellona, in Spain, and he thought there might be more work to be found there.

How we missed each other, I will never know and cannot imagine, so I hitch-hiked back up to just below Athens and then turned westward toward the city of Patras. What in the world was I hoping for? My bread was gone, and I had no means of crossing the ocean again to get back to Italy!

So how did I get back to Italy from Greece? Well, that’s a story for another time!

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It is better to enter heaven with one eye, than with two eyes to enter hell.
~Friedrich Schiller

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured… At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
~Saint Teresa of Avila

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From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
~John Henry Newman

In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise.
~Richard Halverson

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When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That’s a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
~Francis Collins

As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.
~William Drummond

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Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
~Alan Watts

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.
~Gerard Manley Hopkins

It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
~Edgar Quinet

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When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
~Ernest Holmes

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.
~Robert Anton Wilson

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God enters by a private door into every individual.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.
~George A Smith

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Don’t try to tear down other people’s religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy its glories.
~Brigham Young

I’m not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.
~Johan Cruyff

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
~Dante Alighieri

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
~Charles Caleb Colton

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Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
~Khalil Gibran

I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
~Chaim Potok

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.
~Hernan Cortes

If you look at the Qur’an with the eyes of a sound heart, you will see that its six aspects are so brilliant and transparent that no darkness, no misguidance, no doubt or suspicion, no trickery could enter it or find a fissure through which to enter and violate its purity.
~Said Nursi

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
~Joseph Smith, Jr

I’m terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.
~Maureen O’Hara

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I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.
~Kate McKinnon

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
~Mary Oliver

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If you come on my property, I’ve got you from the second that you enter on. There’s little lasers… my TVs come on in my room and fall just right on you. So, there’s no way to sneak up on me. And I’ve got a loud dog.
~Gary Allan

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
~Arnold Bennett

You enter strong and you exit strong, and you’re going to be OK.
~Chris Farley

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Prewritten Prompt:   enter/entrance

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If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
~Fran Drescher

When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame’s flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
~Saina Nehwal

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won’t bother me.
~Greta Garbo

Once you enter the public’s eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
~Brigitte Nielsen

I am an outsider looking in, absolutely. You’re not going to see me at the Academy Awards ‘Vanity Fair’ party any time soon. I’m not somebody who, no matter where I go, there are paparazzi or any of that nonsense. But I have a little window into that world, and I can enter it and dance around. I want to be the audience’s ticket into the party.
~Kathy Griffin

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§ THE EXERCISE

once

the river nearby
below
reinvigorated by the sharp cold
the snow and winter rains
enter: the bridge above
adjoining two sides
thoughts of love
short arc of treachery
kissed with ice
our one-night stand

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the wrong map

slang the language, not verse or proper diction
Free! to buy, no hindrance and no restrictions
cash is nearer truth than either fact or fiction

disordered compass, bent on wrong direction
outdated map, old rural road now a subdivision
outpost lost, died of cost and lack of supervision

records, names and dates, complete this requisition
forbidding legal microscope of an inquisition
culprits culpable promoting lies and superstitions

enter algorithms and the complexities of ambition
let curiosity drive, then trust it with permission
pay full nickel fare and not know the destination

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Common Denominator

Myth of the benevolent dictator
Versus wordmongers and war drummers
Dream buyers and naysayers
Enter: the overheated and overrated orator
‘Gainst a nest of rabidly hot game players
Brash royalty versus loyalty to the agitators
The rush to crush the debate
Between Fate and their soothsayers
But enough! Call their bluff
The common-breed dominators
The lowest meanest average
But for the denominator of One
The every and all of One

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trajectory

enter the dream a reverie
somewhere ‘twixt epiphany
and stubborn stupidity
a peace ‘tween you and me
call it quits set us free

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5s & 7s

been said, life’s a test
good ‒ bad on the questionaire
enter: your response
best answer, void the answer
judged guilty, self-written laws

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nearly forgotten
that episode of fifty
times I tried to leave
tried to crack your iron mold
flee your temple, marble cold

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enter the drag-ons
the poor, lame, the hoi poloi
ouiji board answers

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

I simply don’t want to enter the rat race. I like doing movies because I like acting and not because I want to reach the top.
~Namrata Shirodkar

It might sound stupid, but I don’t enter a race to win – I enter a race because I love racing.
~Bronte Campbell

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You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
~Ella Maillart

You have to react to what’s around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
~Jan Garbarek

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Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
~Lois Lowry

When your persona begins to take over your music and becomes more important, you enter a dangerous place. Once you have people around you who don’t question you, you’re in a dangerous place.
~Elton John

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We have become a society that can’t self-correct, that can’t address its obvious problems, that can’t pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that – for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati – we can’t wake up from.
~Thomas Frank

I didn’t listen to half of the criticism I received. I just didn’t let it enter my brain.
~Alan Pardew

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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
~Bram Stoker

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
~Thomas More

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
~Theodore Bikel

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated… it is finished when it surrenders.
~Ben Stein

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
~Philip Kearny

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There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.
~Thomas Hardy

The eye is a crystal entrance to a spiritual palace, and lets us glance for a moment into the inviolate sanctuary of soul. If you watch the eyes of a sensitive person you may read a perpetual soliloquy. …The life of the face is the eye.
~Thomas Clark Henley

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Editor’s Note: Wordgrove’s Post & Review began as a labor of love, and will apparently continue as a labor of love. The lessons learned in the process of assembling each issue are too valuable to give up. The opportunity to help will remain, however, because one never knows when the urge to say thank you becomes an itch that wants scratching. Until then, simply enjoy in good conscience. Another time, maybe.

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The Olio
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