#dead

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

#being #boring #dead #down #drinking

We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#anything #back #cares #crops #dark

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#deadly #english #essential #example #identity

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dead #fork #instrument #into #mouth

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#dead #desire #friends #living #made

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#consideration #dead #either #eulogy #person

One does not re-light a dead cigarette. ↗

— Anna Held

#dead #does

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ↗

— Zig Ziglar

#dead-end street #detour #failure #street

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead. ↗

— Laura Kightlinger

#drag #dress #famous #i #like