#grave

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring. ↗

— Bob Considine

#bring #call #day #each #find

I used to work the graveyard shift. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#i #shift #used #work

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#half #life #my life #one half #other

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#fact #grave #him #his #kennedy

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#country #crawl #drop #fall #fire

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#demands #enough #exhausted #explained #flop

There is a serious, immediate and extraordinarily grave threat to the continued existence of this country. ↗

— James Forrestal

#country #existence #extraordinarily #grave #grave threat

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beyond #books #eat #elephant #especially

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#always #certain #certain things #cradle #figure