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“When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.”

People Want Littles Two Stories Desire Dies Lost Hours Heard Hollywood Something New Strongest Formulas New Experiences New Places Meeting New People

Book:Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007

“In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.”

Looks Eye Lasts Past Dies Speak Hours Glory Thirds Balls Paid Various British Screens Reputation Indian Queens Charming

Book:The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Source: The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)

“Saturday night in Toledo Ohio, Is like being nowhere at all, All through the day how the hours rush by, You sit in the park and you watch the grass die.”

Night Dies Hours Watches Humorous Grass Parks Saturday Ohio Saturday Night Toledo

Author:John Denver

“It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.”

Men Humanity Dies Girl Hours Four Week Husband Kissing Six Twenties Males Hopeless One Man Conception Lightning Cheerful Vivid Blast Drunkards Delirium Whisky Anathema Delirium Tremens

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“Dreams dawn and fly: friends smile and die, Like spring flowers. Our vaunted life is one long funeral. Men dig graves, with bitter tears, For their dead hopes; and all, Mazed with doubts, and sick with fears, Count the hours.”

Men Life Long Dream Life Is Dies Hours Doubt Tears Flower Spring Sick Graves Bitter Dawn Funeral Spring Flowers

Book:Matthew Arnold

Source: Matthew Arnold

“I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.”

“Unwind my riddle.Cruel as hawks the hours fly;Wounded men seldom come home to die;The hard waves see an arm flung high;Scorn hits strong because of a lie;Yet there exists a mystic tie.Unwind my riddle.”

Men Hard Home Lying Dies Strong Hours Arms Wave Ties Coming Home Wounded Scorn Mystic Riddle Hawks Unwind

Book:Wounds in the Rain

Source: Wounds in the Rain

“The plain fact is religion must die for mankind to live. The hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key deciscions made by religious people. By irrationalists. By those who would steer the ship of state, not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.”

People Made States Facts Able Dies Reading Hours Religious Mankind Keys Late Ships Chickens Compass Indulge Steers Indulge In

Author:Bill Maher

“My hour at last has come; Yet not ingloriously or passively I die, but first will do some valiant deed, Of which mankind shall hear in after time.”

Firsts Lasts Dies Hours Mankind Deeds Valiant

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.”

Men Way Giving Mind Dies Courses Left Hours Wise Fool Ill Envy Satire Strife Malice Bosoms Discretion Opposing Vigor Headstrong

Author:Charles Churchill

“Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.”

Thinking Seems Artist Dies Hours Passing Passings

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, / And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; / On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, / And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. / Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, / Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.”

Earth Dies Heaven Sound Hours Hell Flower Ocean Depth Caught Breathe Shade Delicate Verses Echoes Delicate Flower

Author:Catherine Maria Fanshawe

“I wish the air were pure oxygen, and then as it says in our chemistry book, our life would sweep through its fevered burning course in a few hours and we would live in a perfect delirium of excitement and would die vibrating with passion, for anything would be better than this lazy sluggish life.”

Book Would Be Dies Passion Courses Wish Hours Perfect Our Lives Air Pure Burning Excitement Lazy Chemistry Oxygen Delirium Sluggish

Author:M. Carey Thomas

“"People can't die, along the coast," said Mr. Peggotty, "except when the tide's pretty nigh out. They can't be born, unless it's pretty nigh in - not properly born, till flood. He's a going out with the tide. It's ebb at half-arter three, slack water half an hour. If he lives till it turns, he'll hold his own till past the flood, and go out with the next tide."”

People Ifs Said Past Dies Turns Three Next Water Born Hours Half Tides Flood Going Out Coast Spooky

Author:Charles Dickens

“To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death.”

Children Made Stills Real Death Dies Hours Christianity Comedy Suicide Drawing Chosen Witness Accomplished Opposition Right Time Farewell Wretched Euthanasia

Book:Twilight of the Idols

Source: Twilight of the Idols

“I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power.”

Men Death Dies Hours Gifted Prophetic

Book:The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Apology, Phaedo and Crito by Plato; The Golden Sayings by Epictetus; The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

“Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.”

Men Dies Hours Modern Speech Vices Insult Reasonable Disgusting Assembly Oratory Reasonable Man Amplification

Book:Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.”

Ifs Wells Dies Hours Dying Lunch

Author:Epictetus

“I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?”

Hate Dies Stars Hours Sky Wind Sparks Love And Hate

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

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