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  • The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to condense itself into one big chance, and stand out before him like a salmon on the top wave of a rapid. He sees his luck hangs by a single strand of gut, and he cannot tell whether it will hold or break. This is the thrilling moment and he never forgets it.

    Sea   Fishing   Rivers  
    Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things”, p.23, Read Books Ltd
  • (Rogers) Hornsby could run like anything but not like this kid. (Ty) Cobb was the fastest I ever saw for being sensational on the bases.

    Running   Kids   Roger  
  • Somehow or other I always got myself rigged up in something sensational.

  • [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

    Triumph   May   Study  
  • The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

    Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”
  • If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  • You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

    Mistake   Winning   Play  
  • Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.

    Energy   Pieces   Speech  
  • When I was there at Marvel, everybody thought if you could draw well and you could do sensational panels, that you were going to be a success. The truth is that no matter how good or bad you are as a draftsman, if you can't tell a story, you don't last in comics. ...About halfway through my stay at Marvel, I realized I was being paid to tell a story, not do a drawing. That's why my stuff is always rather simple and uncomplicated compared to a lot of guys.

    Book   Simple   Drawing  
  • It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

  • I remember that I felt I had to avoid all these sensational photos, the hanged woman, the man who shot himself, and so forth. I collected a great deal of material, including a number of banal, irrelevant photos, and then in the course of my work I came back to the very pictures I had actually wanted to avoid, which summed up the various stories.

    Art   Men   Numbers  
  • The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.

    Two   May   New Testament  
    "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. VIII, The Age Of Discoveries, p. 87, 1949.
  • I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

  • In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a cliché, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all.

    Artist   Paris   Long  
    Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.161, Ballantine Books
  • I remember in 1996 falling in love with the Chinese divers. These were people on 20 metre and 10 metre platform boards, doing stuff that you couldn't believe. Then when you saw them afterwards they were about the size of my leg. That was just sensational.

    Source: www.bbc.co.uk
  • But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

    "Totally cosmic: the Life Mounds of Charles Jencks". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2011.
  • I also like to use a sensational headline. Many people read blogs in aggregators, which generally show only the headline. So you have to give people a reason to click through. Blogs need to be real and personal. Reading it should be like hanging out with you. I play music for my readers. I show them videos I like. I tell them what I did over the weekend. And I tell them what is happening in the technology, Internet, and VC markets.

    Success   Business   Real  
  • I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency.

  • Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

    Source: www.glamour.com
  • Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

    Love   Men   Attractive  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.52, BookBaby
  • It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

    Charles Webster Leadbeater (2007). “Vegetarianism and Occultism”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
  • It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so.

    Mistake   Lying   Special  
    Study in Scarlet (1888) ch. 7
  • This ongoing coexistence which makes life sensational. The eyes have this ability to flip around what they see from one second to another, to see something as an object, and then as a design. That's really liberating, and I try to convey that in my work, that your eyes are free and you are free to use them.

    Eye   Design   Trying  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

  • We are a sensational team.

    "Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - review" by Linda Buckley-Archer, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2012.
  • Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

    Team   Kissing   Battle  
    Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.64, Egmont UK
  • from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

  • You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish. However, you didn't have to be a Jew to be moved by 'My Yiddish Momme.' 'Mother' in any language means the same thing.

    Mother   Song   Mean  
  • Were I to write what I know, the book would be too sensational to print, but were I to write what I think proper, it would be too dull to read.

    Book   Writing   Thinking  
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