Juicy Quotes
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Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.
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More Juicy Quotes
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
wystan hugh auden— 1939 'Stop all the clocks', Collected Poems. Featured in the1994 film Four Weddings and a Funeral.
It's anindulgencetosit ina roomand discuss yourbeliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
— 1941 Sara. Watch on the Rhine, act 2.
I am particularly fond of [Emmanuel Mendes da Costa's] Natural History of Fossils because this treatise, more than any other work written in English, records a short episode expressing one of the grand false starts in the history of natural science and nothing can be quite so informative and instructive as a juicy mistake.
stephen jay gould— "The Clam Stripped Bare by Her Naturalists, Even", p. 93
Yet, all beneath the unrivall'd rose, The lowly daisy sweetly blows; Tho' large the forest's monarch throws His army shade, Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows, Adown the glade.
Robert Burns— Robert Burns, The Vision (1786), Duan II, Stanza 21.
The Hawthorn whitens; and the juicy Groves Put forth their buds, unfolding by degrees, Till the whole leafy Forest stands displayed, In full luxuriance, to the sighing gales.
james thomson— James Thomson, The Seasons, Spring (1728), line 90.
It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip .
— Lillian Helman in: Amy Elizabeth Dean Morning Light: A Book of Meditations to Begin Your Day, Hazelden Publishing, 21 August 2013, p.6
