Ruined Quotes - Page 10

• I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

  Charles Frazier

  People, Why Not, Bitter

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• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Too Much, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We attempted perfection; we wanted an object to be without flaw, so we cut the papers with a razor, pasted them down meticulously, but it buckled and was ruined... that is why we decided to tear prewrinkled paper, so that in the finished work of art imperfection would be an integral part, as if at birth death were built in.

  Hans Arp

  Art, Cutting, Perfection

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• I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. Im not spooky! I want life!

  Karen Black

  Jobs, Done, Want

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• Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Agony, Depth

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.77, David R. Godine Publisher

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• Rushing to optimize before the bottlenecks are known may be the only error to have ruined more designs than feature creep. From tortured code to incomprehensible data layouts, the results of obsessing about speed or memory or disk usage at the expense of transparency and simplicity are everywhere. They spawn innumerable bugs and cost millions of man-hours - often, just to get marginal gains in the use of some resource much less expensive than debugging time

  Eric S. Raymond

  Memories, Men, Errors

  Eric S. Raymond (2003). “The Art of UNIX Programming”, p.23, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Irony ruined everything Even the best exploitation movies were never meant to be `so bad they were good`. They were not made for the intelligentsia. They were made to be violent for real, or to be sexy for real. But now everybody has irony. Even horror films now are ironic. Everybody's in on the joke now. Everybody's hip. Nobody takes anything at face value anymore.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Real, Ironic

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• It's that show Friends. Ruined coffee forever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Coffee, Forever, Shows

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• Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

  Aleister Crowley

  People, Police, Spy

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  Hermann Hesse

  Nature, Power, Men

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.46, Macmillan

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• What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mean, Frustrated, What If

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• Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Air, Earth, Saws

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2003). “The Dogs of Babel”, Large Print Press

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• Stories and cigarettes ruined lives of lesser girls.

  Pete Yorn

  Girl, Stories, Cigarette

  Song: Strange Condition, Album: Musicforthemorningafter

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• When political correctness first started coming around, it ruined Andrew Dice Clay and Eddie Murphy's stand-up career. Sam Kinison died at just the right time, 'cause no one was going to tolerate what he was saying anymore either.

  Artie Lange

  Careers, Political, Clay

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. January 7, 2010.

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• ...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very specific sort of exploitation... And while I am doing literal corrections to flippant turns of phrase, the earth doesn't get raped. It gets mined and poisoned and blown up and depleted, it gets ruined, but it doesn't get raped.

  Michelle Tea

  People, Flippant, Phrases

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• He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Perfectly Good, Meals, Disappointed

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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• Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

  Ilona Andrews

  Badass, Butterfly, Light

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.35, Penguin

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• My sister has decided to become an actress too. It has ruined the close-knittedness of our family life.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Actresses, My Sister, Family Life

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• Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Believe, Doors, Trying

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• Hitler really ruined that mustache for everybody. It’s really an interesting mustache, but now, no one can wear it.

  Larry David

  Interesting, Mustache

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• I turned to leave and paused before the gap in the ruined wall. "One last thing, Your Majesty. I'd like a name I can put into my report, something shorter than typing out 'The Leader of the Southern Shapechanger Faction.' What should I call you?" "Lord." I rolled my eyes. He shrugged. "It's short.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Eye, Names

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Silent is the ruined land. Man is brutal and the rain does not wash away the pain or rid the distant memory. It makes it glisten.

  Cecil Castellucci

  Pain, Memories, Rain

  Cecil Castellucci (2011). “Boy Proof”, p.22, Candlewick Press

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• Daniel had ruined that couple’s life. Killed their daughter. All because he’d been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

  Lauren Kate

  Daughter, Couple, Angel

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.556, Delacorte Press

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• It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

  Sebastian Barry

  Hero, Peculiar, Half

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• Iggy: "Now what? Who you gonna call?" A quiet voice in the hallway outside: "Ghostbusters!" (Captain Perry and John groan) John: "That phrase is ruined forever.

  James Patterson

  Quiet Voice, Forever, Phrases

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