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Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
Minsk! How pissed-off that sounded! It was great. You could scare the bejayzus out of someone if you said it right.
The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.
I really appreciate the way you don't appreciate me, said my subconscious as I agreed to go out with her yet again.
The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.
I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off.
Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.''
John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.
Braiiinnnnssss," we said in unison. "It's both sad and incredibly impressive that you were all ready with that one.
I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.
The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.
It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
I'd stood my ground against him. I wasn't going to jump when he said jump. I was more likely to give him the finger.
The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.
I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.
The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
On reflection,’ Crake said to Frey, as they huddled behind an upturned table, ‘this wasn’t one of your better plans.
I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.
So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey.
Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?
Drew, your enemies can mess your life up,' he said. 'Or they can make it easy for you to do it to yourself.' —Fletch
Meet me in the courtyard in half an hour, then,” said Will. “I’ll wake Cyril. And be prepared to swoon at my finery.
Okay, Barrons, it's time." "I am not helping you shave your legs." he said instantly. "Oh please. As if I'd let you.
She said that her father's death had been the hardest thing in her life. "We are all children until our fathers die.
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
We are what we eat, it is often said, but of course that's only part of the story. We are what what we eat eats too.
For our senior picture, they said, 'Black or navy blazer.' And I thought, Why do I want to look like everybody else?
I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.
I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said. "Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
I’ve told you before, I love like a madman,” he said. “Immoderate, jealous, possessive...I’m absolutely intolerable.
Someone has said that nations have interests, they don't have friends, and you see that over and over in U.S. policy.
What will happen to me, as the oyster said when he very inadvertently swallowed the gooseberry bush, nobody can tell.
Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.
You forgot the ‘my precious,’” Anna said dryly. “If you want to act like a freaking nutcase, you have to do it right.
I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.
That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.
You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.
Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them.
I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.
"Nothing," I said. "I’m just…" I couldn’t finish the sentence, didn’t know how to. "I’m just very, very fond of you."
If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.
I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.