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“You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was going that fast.”

“The reptiles had taken over the city. Once again they were the dominant form of life. Looking up at the ancient impassive faces, Kerans could understand the curious fear they roused, rekindling archaic memories of the terrifying jungles of the Paleocene, when the reptiles had gone down before the emergent mammals, and sense the implacable hatred one zoological class feels towards another that usurps it.”

Feels Faces Form Memories Animal Cities Class Gone Taken Hatred Ancient Curious Dominant Jungle Mammals Reptiles

Book:The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere

Source: The Drowned World and the Wind From Nowhere

“I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.”

Want Trying Ideas Matter Done Challenges Gone Focused Modesty Things Done Supermarkets Carts

Author:George Lucas

“I think that's an obligation you have, to give back no matter what happens. It actually ends up being easier when you're young than when you become successful. Suddenly you realize you've gone into a whole other realm of philanthropy, from just being a volunteer to being this person that dedicates buildings and saves lots of children in some faraway place.”

“You can get rid of the column. It's a little like staying at a hotel; you get used to the shape of the room, and then you're gone. With a novel you move into town and stay for a long time. That's both comforting and terrifying.”

Littles Long Moving Used Rooms Novel Gone Shapes Long Time Towns Hotel Staying Comforting Columns

Author:Anna Quindlen

“I'm proud of most of the stuff I've put out and I hope my kids will look at it long after I'm gone and go, "hey, Daddy was cool once!"”

Looks Long Kids Stuff Gone Proud Hey Daddy

Author:Doc Brown

“My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map out guitar cords on a piece of notebook paper. I'd sit down and look at it every day and practice while he was gone.”

Years Looks Play Practice Gone Pieces Teaching Dad Paper Down And Guitar My Dad Maps Notebook Cords

Author:Jason Aldean

“Radio has changed, there was a little bit of difference around the country and now that is gone and everything is uniform. That is not the only place it's happening in music, there's a lot of consolidation.”

Littles Country Bits Differences Gone Changed Little Bit Happenings Radio Uniforms Consolidation

Author:Joan Jett

“I don't do well with modern films, to be honest. Opening credits, and I'm just gone.”

Wells Film Gone Modern Honest Credit Opening Being Honest

Author:Johnny Depp

“One thing that's been a great, uplifting experience through all this is, since the first "Pirates" [movie], the people who've gone to see the films, the audience members. You meet people on the street - whether they're 5, 25, 65 or 85 - they've all had the same experience, and they've all enjoyed it. So that's what keeps me moving forward in this crazy process.”

People Firsts Film Moving Process Audience Gone One Thing Crazy Streets Members Moving Forward Uplifting Enjoyed Pirate

Author:Johnny Depp

“The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.”

Looks Littles Art Seems Night Loses Gone Security Shots Importance Cameras Memorable Thrown Cinematography

Author:Rob Zombie

“What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Humans Problem Song Realizing Deals Common Gone Music Is Feel Good Feel Better Make People Feel Better

Author:Jack Johnson

“I always wrote the music first, and the music gave me the mood and the lyrics were pretty much put in to give you a map, where that mood came from and where it's going. But my first love was really the music itself, and I guess I've gone back to that.”

Giving Firsts Gone Mood Maps First Love

Author:Billy Joel

“Making these photographs has often seemed to me like a kind of dance. Often I have danced badly and the world has fallen apart at my feet. But sometimes the dance has gone well and my subject and I have moved together as if with shared purpose.”

Ifs World Wells Kind Sometimes Together Purpose Gone Feet Subjects Photography Moved Photograph Fallen

Author:Keith Carter

“A preventive war, to my mind, is an impossibility today. How could you have one if one of its features would be several cities lying in ruins, several cities where many, many thousands of people would be dead and injured and mangled, the transportation systems destroyed, sanitation implements and systems all gone? That isn't preventive war; that is war.”

People Ifs Mind War Would Be Today Lying Cities Gone Defense Destroyed Ruins Features Impossibility Injured Transportation Sanitation Preventive War

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. If ever again we should be involved in war, we will fight it in all elements, with all services, as one single concentrated effort.”

Ifs Should Firsts War Fighting Effort Gone Forever Air Sea Involved Elements Defense Warfare

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.”

World Firsts Wells War Millions Gone Forever Air Sea Lessons Europe Defense War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Warfare Veteran Pacific American Veterans

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“[I] don't like to think like everybody else, don't like to try to think like everybody else, don't like to do nothing everybody else think I'm gone do, don't like to say nothing everybody else think I'm gone say. I'm a Martian. I like to be different. And what's more different than a Martian.”

Thinking Trying Different Gone Martians

Author:Lil Wayne

“The human race has always defined itself through narration. That isn't going to change just because we've gone electronic. What is changing is that now we're allowing corporations to tell our stories for us.”

Humans Stories Race Gone Defined Corporations Human Race Allowing Narration

Author:Tom Robbins

“The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.”

Ifs World Giving Done Care Dies Gone Forever Tomorrow Forgotten Graves Damn Lazy

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.”

Writing Ideas Dark Morning Sun Gone Land Down And Good Ideas Daylight

Author:Stephen King

“It's like a pulsar inside me. There is this great burst of energy, forcing me to write, and then the star goes quiet for a time, and I think it's gone, but it's gathering energy for another burst. And I seem to be almost unwilling participants in this.”

Thinking Writing Seems Energy Stars Gone Quiet Gathering Unwilling Participants

Author:Richard Bach

“There's this wonderful and very important event when we're born, and we forget everything that's gone before, or else we'd be such a mass of rememberings that we couldn't operate successfully on this planet.”

Important Remember Born Forget Gone Wonderful Events Planets Mass Forget Everything Important Events

Author:Richard Bach

“I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.”

Thinking Writing Children Book Gone College Juniors Sophomore

Author:Alice Walker

“On my twelfth birthday, I got a new bicycle as a present from my folks, and I rode it to a fair that was being held at the Columbia Gymnasium, and when I come out, my bike was gone. I was so mad I was crying, and a policeman, Joe Martin, come up and I told him I was going to whip whoever took my bike. He said I ought to take some boxing lessons to learn how to whip the thief better, and I did. That's when I started fighting.”

Said Fighting Gone Cry Ought Lessons Fairs Mad Folks Come Up Boxing Thieves Bike Policemen Bicycle Whips Columbia Gymnasiums

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.”

Mind Mean Care Today Individual Gone Rich Tomorrow Fame Glory Destruction Bigger Islam Don't Care Riches I Don't Care Doomed Things On My Mind

Author:Muhammad Ali

“The shelf life of molecules is very short. Ninety-eight percent of all the atoms in my body are gone by next year.”

Years Body Next Gone Percent Eight Atoms Shelves Ninety Next Year Molecules Shelf Life Ninety Eight

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Humanity as a whole has already gone through unimaginable suffering, mostly self-inflicted, the culmination of which was the 20th century with its unspeakable horrors. This collective suffering has brought upon a readiness in many human beings for the evolutionary leap that is spiritual awakening.”

“A person dies, or something you had identified with completely is gone. Your home goes up in flames. There is extreme pain at first. But whenever a form dissolves, which is called "death," what remains is an opening into emptiness.”

Firsts Persons Home Pain Form Dies Gone Remains Extremes Opening Flames Emptiness Extreme Pain

Author:Eckhart Tolle

“It's impossible to predict which paintings will last and which won't. In New Orleans I painted on a dilapidated shop in a street littered with abandoned cars and rotting mattresses, then two hours later the piece was gone. It turned out I'd picked the side of a crack house and the proprietor didn't like the attention.”

Two Lasts House Sides Hours Attention Gone Pieces Impossible Streets Car Painting Shops Cracks Abandoned New Orleans Rotting Mattresses

Author:Banksy

“Early in my career it was very important that I gain the reputation. I haven't been on the road in two or three years, but when I say tickets are on sale, I know they're going to be gone, even if my movie bombed or my TV show sucked.”

Ifs Knows Years Two Important Shows Three Careers Gone Havens Tvs Gains Reputation Three Years Tickets Tv Shows

Author:Chris Rock

“The big issue is whether the United States will succeed in its venture of reshaping the Middle East. It is not clear to me that using military force is the way to do it. We should not have gone into Iraq. But we have.”

Way Should States Bigs Force United United States Gone Issues Clear Middle Military Succeed Iraq East Middle East Venture Military Force

Author:Milton Friedman

“Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.”

Ifs Light Decision Acting Gone Importance Cameras Details Core Dialogue Costumes

Author:Xavier Dolan

“I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms.”

Gone Painting Involved Rhythm Paris

Author:Patti Smith

“I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?”

Knows Feels Kind Persons Process Decision Gone Comfortable Auditions

Author:James Mercer

“I'm sure that there are many Israelis who dream of waking up one day to find the Palestinians gone. And there are many Palestinians who dream of going to bed at night and waking up the next morning to find the Israelis gone.”

Dream Night Next Morning Gone One Day Bed Wake Up Waking Palestinian

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“Often, the things that a lot of work has gone into have been incredibly bad because they're over-worked.”

Has Beens Gone

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Little things like making clothes, baking bread, cooking, even useless things like bird-watching, sketching flowers, playing guitar in the home - that sort of time is gone. And the time we have? We're so exhausted, we want to let ourselves get sucked in to the escape world of TV. I'm speaking from experience; I'm not above all this.”

World Want Littles Home Gone Flower Tvs Clothes Bird Cooking Guitar Bread Useless Little Things Exhausted Baking Playing Guitar Sketching Useless Things Bird Watching Baking Bread

Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.”

Should Done Night Chance Gone Theater One Night One Chance

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I hate Twitter. I think it's disgusting. It's ridiculous that you as a stranger can type something to me, and I see it. Technology has gone too far.”

Thinking Hate Technology Gone Type I Hate Stranger Ridiculous Disgusting

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“I'm sort of a traditionalist usually. I love old soul music and The Beatles; I realized I was sort of trying to make music sometimes that fit into an era that's gone.”

Trying Soul Sometimes Gone Fit I Realized Eras Music Soul Old Soul

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.”

People Long Humor Funny America Realizing Gone Troops Autographs Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.”

Ifs Way Writing Gone Unhappy Literal

Author:Dacia Maraini

“I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.”

Thinking Way Looks Book Matter Fiction Gone Subjects Photograph My Way Packages Select Subject Matter

Author:Bret Easton Ellis

“I have enough of a fan-base that I don't feel it is going to evaporate. I don't feel like I have a fleeting fan-base. I don't feel like it is coming from some trend-driven thing where I'm no longer going to be hip. I've come and gone through all that.”

Feels Enough Gone Fans Driven Hips Trends Fleeting

Author:Joel Plaskett

“I know too many playwrights, or would-be playwrights, or would-have-been playwrights, that are around my age, who were bitter or have gone to something else because they got such a raw deal from critics, and some are quite wonderful writers.”

Knows Has Beens Would Be Age Deals Gone Wonderful Critics Bitter Playwright

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“Other people don't know what you've gone through. And everybody has a story that you probably don't know.”

People Knows Stories Gone

Author:Travis Pastrana

“I worked in a steel mill, I worked in a foundry, I worked in a paper mill, I worked in a chemical refinery, construction, I did all that. It was great work, it was good. I learned welding, mechanic, carpentry, but it saved me from going back to prison because that's helpful. It's really sad because those jobs are gone.”

Jobs Gone Paper Prison Saved Helpful Working It Chemicals Construction Steel Mechanic Great Work Mills Really Sad Carpentry Refinery Welding

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“Nobody supported me; my family thought I had gone crazy. They thought, you crazy gangster, you crazy drug addict, now you want to be a writer? That's it! They totally gave up on me after that.”

Want Gone Crazy Drug My Family Addict Gave Up Gangsters Drug Addict Gone Crazy

Author:Luis J. Rodriguez

“For years, Blockbuster Video has edited movies. Like The Bad Lieutenant, when he's masturbating while the girls in the car are doing the thing. I rented it from Blockbuster and sped to that scene, and it was gone. I called up Blockbuster, and I'm like, "I got an erection, and the scene's not there."”

Years Funny Girl Gone Comedy Car Scene Video Edited Blockbuster Lieutenants Sped

Author:Louis C. K.

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