#dead

I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author! ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#author #boyfriend #crush #dead #girl

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#darling #dead #doing #i #time

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#i #musician #remembered #some #substance

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. ↗

— James Merrill

#around #believed #beyond #college #dead

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. ↗

— Paul J. Meyer

#carry #confidence #criticisms #crystallize #deadline

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive. ↗

— Henry Miller

#carries #dangerous #dead #different #evil

The pros really like all the new people playing poker because they love the dead money; but when the money wins they don't like that very much at all. ↗

— Chris Moneymaker

#dead #like #love #money #much

I really believed that the priests were acquainted with my thoughts; and often stood in great awe of them. They often told me they had power to strike me dead at any moment. ↗

— Maria Monk

#any #awe #believed #dead #great

I am one of the crucified dead. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#crucified #dead #i #i am

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#generate #hostility #writer