Zitat des Tages über Strand:
Socially smart people have always mocked the threateningly mobile, and anti-branding is a central strand of high-end status conflict now.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.
The druidical claims for Stonehenge seem to belong to that bonkers-but-persistent strand of Englishness that believes there is something particularly mystical about the English themselves, who were clearly a chosen people.
Genes don't mean necessarily that you have got a certain strand of gene that makes you particularly acceptable as a public official.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
Like many great world faiths, Mormonism has an important strand of sacred mystery. Mormon temples have traditionally been closed to outsiders and designed with opaque windows.
I used to surf up in Ventura County at Silver Strand; plus, I've played up there many times.
I have a reputation for being an improvisational actor, which is true, but I also know what I'm doing so that if the improvisational strand doesn't work I can go back to what I know's already there.
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.
I love my job. But I like to have fun at work. So I don't get finicky if one strand of hair is standing out in a shot. I don't get finicky about broken nails. I don't let small things affect me. I'm not perfect. Nobody is. There's no fun in being perfect. I enjoy my work; there's no pressure on me.
You'd need a very specialized electron microscope to get down to the level to actually see a single strand of DNA.
With Millais's paintings, it's microscopic; when he does hair, it's extraordinary: you can see every strand.
