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  • Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery - the epitome of breaking into new worlds.

    ANNE MORROW lINDBERGH (1973). “HOUR OF GOLD HOUR OF LEAD”
  • A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe, a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

    Golf   Space   House  
    Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
  • Of many large volumes the index is the best portion and the usefullest. A glance through the casement gives whatever knowledge of the interior is needful. An epitome is only a book shortened; and as a general rule, the worth increases as the size lessens.

    Book   Giving   Size  
    Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.119
  • I am the epitome of what you dream to be and the reality of what you can't be.

    Dream   Reality   Epitome  
  • It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

    Dream   Team   Kids  
  • I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.

    Thug   Should Have   Long  
    "Talking With Our Mouths Full: Michael Kenneth Williams". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 4, 2011.
  • Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

    Son   Cities   Confusion  
    William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.698, Wordsworth Editions
  • I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It's the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals.

    Summer   Hunting   Animal  
    Source: hardrockhaven.net
  • Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

    Prayer   Long   Praying  
    Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.147, Barbour Publishing
  • For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

    Comedian   Want   Epitome  
    Source: collider.com
  • [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

  • For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

    Cutting   Gay   America  
    "Severe Conservative Syndrome". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2012.
  • The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

  • There is no other dog that can compare to a Corgi. They're the epitome of beauty.

    Dog   Epitome   Compare  
  • Radio was so important to everybody back then; there was no TV. Columbia Square was the epitome of radio. Everything was modern. It was beautiful.

  • London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

    Rome   London   Epitome  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.364, Penguin
  • That is like in my parents' generation, Walter Cronkite. If you were gonna go into broadcasting, if you weren't gonna be Walter Cronkite, you may as well not go into it. Even after I'd try and tell my parents that he was the epitome of left-wing bias. Well, my dad knew it. My grandfather wouldn't believe it.

    Dad   Believe   Wings  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Tough minded enough to do the necessary things--this is the epitome of what a team is.

    Team   Tough   Enough  
  • It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome.

    Dream   Eye   Voice  
  • Actresses are required to perform the epitome of a certain type of femininity.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm not putting myself up as the epitome of virtue. I certainly am living a non-traditional life. But it is also a loving life and a very supportive one. I think that both in this, and the previous relationship, I think that I've been doing the best I can.

  • This is sort of the epitome of the economic elite that is converging with a political elite. It's not only the banks and insurance companies. It's the war industry and private prisons. Certainly the fossil fuel agencies. It's not only that they're supporting this campaign, they're supporters of the Clinton Foundation. And where the Clinton Foundation ends and Hillary's [Clinton] political actions begin, that too is quite troubling.

    War   Agency   Political  
    Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com
  • Sophia Loren is the embodiment of what a woman should be -- the epitome of femaleness. Most of the young people today are just ironing boards.

  • Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

    Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.240, Psychology Press
  • I think Badfinger was the epitome of that type of music before the power pop term was coined. 'No Matter What" is always gonna be a great song on the radio. There?s probably two or three others off their records that are as cool like 'Day After Day'.

    Song   Thinking   Two  
  • You are the epitome of the word selfless, you did something knowing you wouldn't be able to come home, knowing that your country would have very mixed feelings and yet your integrity on what you believe was right or wrong or should be public knowledge was more important to you than almost your own comfortability and the life that you had lived for so long. So I would like say thank you to him.

  • I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

    Sex   Bass   Way  
  • She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

    Sorrow   Epitome  
    Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
  • Like many people, I consider myself an incurable romantic, and there is a part of me that will always believe in walking off into the sunset to live happily ever after. When I was younger, like many children, I assumed I would get married, live in a nice house, and have a couple of kids. I also assumed this very traditional achievement would bring me endless happiness and romance. So much so, that during my college years I considered girls engaged by graduation to be the epitome of success. Perhaps needless to say, I was not one of those girls.

    Girl   Children   Couple  
    Robi Ludwig, Matt Birkbeck (2006). “'Till Death Do Us Part: Love, Marriage, and the Mind of the Killer Spouse”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • A work of art is an abstract or epitome of the world. It is the result or expression of nature, in miniature. For, although the works of nature are innumerable and all different, the result or the expression of them all is similar and single.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.9, Courier Corporation
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