Bloody Quotes - Page 25

• Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts?

  Margaret Laurence

  Jelly, Doughnut

  Margaret Laurence (1974). “The Diviners”, p.36, University of Chicago Press

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• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Heart, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

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• How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.

  Roberto De Vicenzo

  Golf, Winning, Championship

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• I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Self, People, Cheese

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• A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

  Robert Harris

  Book, Writing, Infinite

  Robert Harris (2010). “The Ghost Writer”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Inspiring Love, Mouths

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• First time I got arrested, I knew somehow and some way, we would succeed. To go on the Freedom Ride to be beaten and left bloody and unconscious, to be beaten on that bridge in Selma, have a concussion - I thought that I was going to die on that bridge. But somehow and some way, I lived to tell about what happened, and I've seen some of the fruits of the labor of so many people, and people must understand that.

  John Lewis

  Bridges, People, Goes On

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• When white men were willing to put their own offspring in the kitchen and corn field and allowed them to be sold into bondage as slaves and degraded them as another man's slave, the retribution of wrath was hanging over this country and the South paid penance in four years of bloody war.

  Rebecca Latimer Felton

  Country, War, Men

  Rebecca Latimer Felton (1919). “Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth: Also Addresses Before Georgia Legislature Woman's Clubs, Women's Organizations and Other Noted Occasions”

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Ninety Nine, Ideas

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Gods have bloody hands.

  Janet Morris

  God, Hands, Ontology

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

  Edward Abbey

  Beer, Beef, Cabins

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• God is love? Not bloody likely.

  Edward Abbey

  God Is Love

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

  Orson Scott Card

  Prayer, Thinking, Wife

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Heartfire: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.230, Macmillan

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• This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, People, House

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  William Shakespeare

  Return, Taught, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

  Ringo Starr

  Laughing, Car, Looks

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• I would spar with the boys at school. This guy I had a crush on, we called him Spitfire -- I gave him a bloody nose and lip, so needless to say the romance did not work out!

  Ashley Greene

  Crush, School, Boys

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• I like the new shoe designers. Not all of them - there are really bad ones too. But I go to the colleges with these kids for lectures, as an honorary professor or whatever, and this Chinese girl I like very much who I give the award to says to me, "You don't know how much you inspired me to do shoes." And I'm glad that I convey that kind of desire to people when they see my bloody shoes.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Girl, Kids, College

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

  Richard Kadrey

  Wall, Thinking, World

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• The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

  Jack London

  Night, Race, Civilization

  Jack London (2015). “The Scarlet Plague”, p.12, Booklassic

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• It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.

  Kate Richards O'Hare

  Mother, Running, War

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• My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.

  James Ira Thomas Jones

  War, School, Pals

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• Ringo is Ringo, that's all there is to it. And he's every bloody bit as warm, unassuming, funny and kind as he seems. He was quite simply the heart of the Beatles

  John Lennon

  Heart, Kind, Ringo

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• I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Thinking, Agony

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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