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“It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!”

Ifs Men Giving Book Matter Hands Laughing Gone Cry Jokes Slave Dead Man Icy Right Words Pathos Gone Time

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.”

Thinking World Gone Mad

Author:Daphne Guinness

“When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.”

Gone Teeth

Author:Tad Williams

“A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.”

Soul Bigs Today Gone Brother Tomorrow Circus Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Book:Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four

Source: Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Four

“There are no pimps, no whores, no transvestites - gone. Now that's more the culture I'm comfortable in ... I don't like it in the house, you know what I mean, but I like it somewhere around.”

Knows Mean Culture House Gone Comfortable Pimp Transvestites

Author:Iggy Pop

“There is one thing about Englishmen, they won't fix anything till it's just about totally ruined. You couldn't get the English to fix anything at the start. No! They like to sit and watch it grow worse. Then, when it just looks like the whole thing has gone up Salt Creek, why, the English jump in and rescue it.”

Looks Whole Grows Watches Gone One Thing Salt Rescue Ruined Englishmen Creeks

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty.... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.”

Writing Years Mind Body Age Reading Forget Gone Difficulty Newspapers Infirmity

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“It would also have been helpful to have gone to a Catholic grammar school. The only people who know grammar are those people who went to Catholic grammar school. Those nuns beat it into them.”

People Knows Has Beens School Gone Beats Catholic Helpful Grammar Nun Grammar School

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Men have gone on to build up vast intellectual schemes, philosophies, and theologies, to prove that ideals are not real as ideals but as antecedently existing actualities. They have failed to see that in converting moral realities into matters of intellectual assent they have evinced lack of moral faith.”

Men Real Matter Philosophy Reality Moral Gone Prove Intellectual Ideals Theology Schemes Actuality Converting

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Humans Realizing Audience Know How Gone Study Imagine Band Yeah Warm Aids All Time Queens Intimate Barriers Controlled Imagine That Vocal Stadiums Stood Up Mercury

Author:Dave Grohl

“I was not raised with religion, and I had no faith before my mother died. On the other hand, when she died, I did not immediately feel she was "gone." I don't believe she is in something like heaven, but I also feel that we don't understand much about the nature of the universe. So I hold on to that uncertainty, at times.”

Feels Believe Hands Mother Universe Heaven Gone Died Raised Don't Believe Uncertainty Mother Died

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and a slew of other churches. I got baptized with my fiancé (Nic Taylor) this last year at Saranac Lake Baptist Church (in New York), so maybe that makes us Baptist. But for me, it's really been about my relationship with Christ and not so much about a denomination or a label.”

Years Has Beens Lasts Christ Community Church Gone New York Labels Lakes Last Year Baptists Denominations Baptized Placid National Community Lake Placid

Author:Elana Meyers

“My family has always gone to church. I like to think that faith has been a part of my life since I was a lot younger. It's definitely a part of my athletic career. I always wear a cross on my goggles during contests when I'm doing something gnarly. It's a reminder that I've got someone else helping me out.”

Thinking Has Beens Helping Church Careers Gone Crosses My Family Contests Reminders Athletic Gnarly Goggles

Author:Nick Goepper

“When communism failed, it wasn't a good idea that had gone wrong, it was a bad idea that had been sustained with incredible determination in the face of all the commonsense arguments, and at the cost of 20 million lives at least, in Russia, to build the socialist Utopia.”

Ideas Faces Millions Gone Cost Determination Argument Incredibles Russia Communism Good Ideas Socialist Utopia Bad Ideas

Author:Martin Amis

“I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Persons Know How Gone Share Like You Husband Empathy Betrayal Betrayed Your Husband Unfaithful

Author:Kathie Lee Gifford

“My kids have grown up knowing nothing other than me being gone all the time and playing in golf tournaments. That's what they know.”

Knows Kids Gone Knowing Golf Tournaments Knowing Nothing Golf Tournaments

Author:Stewart Cink

“With my personality, I generally don't like change a lot. I reflect back on things quicker than I should at times. So it seems like it's gone by really quick. The older you get, the faster it seems to go by.”

Should Seems Gone Personality Faster

Author:Matt Kenseth

“The makeup of the drivers has changed a lot with so many young drivers coming and a lot of the legends moving on. Compared to when I started, it's gone through a lot of changes. The cars have changed a lot and the approach to racing. There are a lot more employees. It's become a much bigger business and more corporate.”

Moving Young Gone Car Changed Approach Bigger Corporate Employee Makeup Drivers Racing Legends

Author:Matt Kenseth

“My agent, Debbie, saying, 'Don't get involved in advertising.' She gets so many calls a day about me promoting a product, but I am really pleased I have never gone down that route. I don't want somebody else to make a saucepan with my name on it.”

Want Names Gone Products Involved Advertising Agents Routes Promoting Get Involved

Author:Delia Smith

“I look at younger girls and I think, 'Doesn't she look great? Isn't she pretty?' And while I know I'll never be there again, I'm past the age of feeling jealous. Maybe in my 30s I would have been, but that part of my life has gone.”

Thinking Knows Looks Has Beens Feelings Age Past Girl Gone Jealous

Author:Trinny Woodall

“I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.”

Trying Wells Persons Purpose Struggle Gone Player Football Huge Findings Peter Jason Football Player Life Struggle My Struggle

Author:Jason Peter

“I can think of so many tough guys that by definition it's their job to be tough and they're all in chapel. That's such a misconception and it's kind of gone out the window. Guys feel more comfortable going to chapel. I remember when I first started, guys were nervous about it and it was kind of a secret. There was still that stigma that came with it, but it's definitely been removed and (the faith movement) is definitely growing.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Kind Stills I Can Jobs Remember Guy Secret Gone Growing Movement Comfortable Tough Window Definitions Nervous Remember When Misconception Stigma Chapel Tough Guy

Author:Matt Cullen

“I met Princess Anne once at a charity do and she said Blue Peter made her realise TV was all lies - she'd gone to Africa on safari with Valerie Singleton and they didn't see a thing, but when she watched it on TV they'd edited in some lion cubs. I was like, 'Oh dear.' I still don't know if she was joking or not.”

Ifs Knows Made Said Stills Lying Gone Tvs Mets Blue Charity Dear Realising Lions Princess Peter Edited Cubs Safari

Author:Konnie Huq

“Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.”

Feels Gone Understood Outcast Puberty

Author:Chris Pine

“I wasn't taken to anywhere I would have gone if I was alone.”

Ifs Gone Taken

Author:Ryan Gander

“Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of reactiveness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.”

Kind Certain Dies Energy Gone Mindset Native Native American Good Day Samurai

Author:Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

“Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone.”

Feels Littles Character Hurt Gone Television Huge It Hurts Omar

Author:Michael K. Williams

“I was in rock music in London when it was the height of Brit pop, with The Kinks revival and Suede and Blur and Oasis, and all of those really great bands that were of a certain style. If I'd really been smart and commercially minded, I would have just got myself a blazer and some Stay Press and some Fred Perry tops, and just gone out and tried to do it like everyone else. Instead, I did this ridiculous thing of trying to do this music.”

Ifs Trying Certain Gone Rocks Style Band Smart Presses Pops London Ridiculous Height Really Great Revival Rock Music Blur Oasis Brits Kink Blazers Ridiculous Things

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.”

Knows Gone Conscience Blast

Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”

Knows Wells Love Is Effort Gone Oneself Reasoning Dazzle

Book:Ardèle: and Colombe : two plays

Source: Ardèle: and Colombe : two plays

“Walk with me, but don't follow me blindly. Hold fast to the truth, not to my garments. My body is merely a clay structure; today it is here, tomorrow it shall be gone. If you attach yourself to me today, what are you going to do tomorrow when I am not with you? Attach yourself to God, attach yourself to humanity, only then will you be closer to me.”

Ifs Body Today Humanity Walks Gone Tomorrow Structure Clay Garments Follow Me Hold Fast Walk With Me

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.”

Ifs Years Today Gone Figures Ten Years Ago Died Cult

Book:POPism: The Warhol '60s

Source: POPism: The Warhol '60s

“What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.”

Knows Felt Gone Focus Generations Months Adults Entrepreneur Previous Generations

Author:Steve Jobs

“I've gone from having a huge fan base to losing a huge fan base to having a kind of fluctuating fan base. I've always had a core of fans who've stuck by me but, depending on the kind of music I do, I end up appealing to certain groups of people and alienating others.”

People Kind Ends Certain Gone Groups Fans Huge Losing Core Stuck

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.”

Today Lasts Night Social Race Gone Happened Media Arms Tomorrow Tools Hot Clubs Social Media Replaced Arms Race Ping Night Club

Author:Mark McKinnon

“What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.”

Today Gone Records Special Rhythm Sections Rhythm Section

Author:Jim Dickinson

“It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Real Past Gone Exciting Pursuit Changing Your Life Real Truth

Author:Ben Bradlee

“Every team that I've gone to has had trouble winning games. I guess that's what I've been put on this earth to do, to fix it.”

Earth Games Winning Gone Trouble Team Winning Games

Author:Jason Kidd

“My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.”

Years Has Beens Steps Gone Journey Step Up My Journey

Author:Vijay Singh

“There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.”

People Knows Gone Forever Photograph Old Photographs

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.”

Important Felt Forget Gone Important Things Panic Forget Everything

Book:What We Keep: A Novel

Source: What We Keep: A Novel

“You don't do things because of the rewards or because someone may remember you after you are gone. The satisfaction is in the doing. Whether or not someone remembers does not really matter.”

May Doe Matter Remember Gone Rewards Satisfaction Remember You Remembers You

Author:Esther Peterson

“Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.”

Thinking Sometimes Natural Gone Missing

Author:Sebastian Janikowski

“I'm still pinching myself. I am very grateful of the way things have gone.”

Way Stills Gone Grateful Pinching

Author:Jason Bay

“I've gone through adversity most guys don't have to face.”

Faces Guy Gone Adversity

Author:Mike Lowell

“I've gone from a two-pitch guy to a four-pitch guy.”

Two Guy Gone Four

Author:Tim Lincecum

“There has to be a certain amount of love just in order for you to survive together. I think a lot of groups have gone down the tubes because they were not able to relate to one another.”

Thinking Able Together Certain Order Gone Groups Amount Relate Tubes

Author:Mary Travers

“In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.”

Looks Lasts Faces Deals Gone Five Minutes Dog Expression Terrible Disguise Five Minutes My Dog Repose

Author:Judy Holliday

“It's funny, people say 'Welcome back' when I haven't gone anywhere.”

People Gone Havens Welcome Back When Funny People Welcome Back

Author:Ricky Williams

“I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.”

Knows Feels Trying Wells Matter Hard Moments Might Care Earth Dies Gone Tomorrow One Day Window Finished Irrelevant Time On Earth

Author:Tom Ford

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