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For a foreigner a Yankee is an American.
For an American a Yankee is a northerner.
To a northerner a Yankee is a resident of the East.
For residents East of the Yankees is a resident of New England.
For residents of New England Yankees are Vermonter.
And for Vermonts Yankee is someone who eats pies for Breakfast.
To foreigners, a Yankee is an American.
To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner.
To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner.
To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast.
Quote Explanation: Characteristics often associated with a stereotypical Yankee greed, thrift, craftiness, rudeness, arrogance, and volume. Mark TWAIN was Dixie, that is a resident of the southern States and often hurt, the nickname of all Americans - the Yankees. Especially after looting his estate "Carpetbaggers," before the war, for some reason he pitied the North. after the war South.
№ 352450   Added MegaMozg 08-12-2018 / 12:17
It's amazing how a small detail can change everything. The flapping wings of a butterfly - and friends are not familiar with.
3 Season 26 Series
№ 349026   Added MegaMozg 06-11-2018 / 19:04
Life - like violence to yourself, you get used to it. Some people think that it can even be fun, but we are not satisfied with your best, even at seventy, and will not, otherwise there would have been people. Some detail is not enough, the huge detail, the size of a silver coin in the night sky.
№ 348909   Added MegaMozg 05-11-2018 / 17:09
Beauty is an infinite number of parts, which are organically combined with each other.
№ 346549   Added MegaMozg 10-10-2018 / 23:03
Yeah, why would she remember about me? For me, it was an event, but the Queen of these little things do not remember. She must have forgotten about me a quarter of an hour after I returned her rosary. But I have not forgotten the Queen of Philip. On her face I saw a mother's love and kindness, which my life lacked.
№ 345047   Added MegaMozg 29-09-2018 / 01:34
This mystery I could not solve. It's funny that remember the small details, for example, flickering lamp outside the window or the clank of dishes that you washed the women behind the wall. But all my life I can't remember the location of the apartment. I wandered in the evenings, hoping that it will help that some old building beckoned me, but the years slipped away from me.
Quote Explanation: Warren couldn't find the house where he lived with his little mother.
№ 343875   Added MegaMozg 18-09-2018 / 14:02
That others do not have time to get their trivia on the barbs prick himself.
№ 343390   Added MegaMozg 15-09-2018 / 02:08
People who have something to hide, talk about the details, but avoid talking about the main.
1 Season 8 Series
№ 338791   Added MegaMozg 18-08-2018 / 03:23
Perfection is inherent in the attention to detail.
№ 337539   Added MegaMozg 10-08-2018 / 20:22
Becoming higher detail, probably make it to big trouble.
№ 333584   Added Viker 16-07-2018 / 11:31
The background is the most important thing.
It's all about the background.
№ 332558   Added MegaMozg 10-07-2018 / 04:03
I like it because there is something in this sometimes strange and quirky. It is in the heart of the disclosure of the murder - but he may suddenly stop to comb my mustache... I always carry a list of 93 items that tell about him. For example, how many lumps of sugar he puts in his tea, and how many in coffee. Because, you know, people always will notice if you make a mistake. And they write about my accuracy. One of the most endearing of his descriptions - "the lights in the eyes," and I've had some lovely fan mail the women who love him purely for that. I wanted him to have charm.
Quote Explanation: The main role of Hercule Poirot in the television series "Poirot" by Agatha Christie.
№ 331067   Added MegaMozg 30-06-2018 / 21:25
It is a rare gift to see what others do not see.
It's a rare gift to see things that others cannot.
№ 328794   Added MegaMozg 13-06-2018 / 06:06
I love very old films. They can see what life used to be thirty, fifty, a hundred years ago. Well, you know, clothes, phones, trains, the way people smoked cigarettes, the little details of life.
№ 325117   Added MegaMozg 07-05-2018 / 00:11
When my soul finds deafness,
And fade once the event and the word
Looking through the eyes splash cold sheet,
Hoinka, footprint in the sand - in fact in the particulars.
№ 322868   Added MegaMozg 13-04-2018 / 17:06