Mordecai Richler quote: "But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial."

Im not a politician and my other habits are good. Ive no enemys to reward, nor friends to sponge. Bu...
ARTEMUS WARD

The whiskey’s power released his repressed memories so fast that his words raced to keep up with t...
PASCAL MARCO

His shoulder might be hurting like a son of a bitch and he was more than slightly sloshed but he rec...
VICKIE MCKEEHAN

I' ve been shot five times but im still breathing living proof there a god if you need a reason.
TUPAC SHAKUR

My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER

dont read my diary when im gone, ok im going to work now , when you wake up please read my diary, lo...
KURT COBAIN

Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life wi...
THOMAS F. HEALEY

I'm lucky because I have a job I love. I really miss being away from home, being in my own bed, ...
MICHELLE BRANCH

teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER

Im okay Im okay now.
But you really need to listen to me
'cause im telling you the trut...
GERARD WAY

A Bullet is a man, from time to time he strays, I compare my life to this, To this I relate. And Im ...
CHRIS CORNELL

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ...
BENAZIR BHUTTO

Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? ...
JONATHAN SACKS

im still waiting for that kiss when my leg [(P o p s)]*
MEGAN

I am crying over the loss of something I never had. How ridiculous. Mourning something that never wa...
E.L. JAMES

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Im on a roller coaster that only goes up my friend.
JOHN GREEN

Im a trackstar running thru life, chasing my dream.
50 CENT

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up fo...
BIBLE

To have my hopes raised and dashed again, it's like cold steel twisting in my gut.
PAULA HAWKINS

Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side
DALLAS GREEN

Placing my head on my knees, I let the irrational tears fall unrestrained. I am crying over the loss...
E.L. JAMES

I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

i's in my writing are never capitalized because in the story of my life im just the supporting chara...
IJIRASHIIJACK

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hop...
CLIVE SINCLAIR

i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL

I got a best time in my freestyle for my relay. This is the first year I've actually done well in fr...
AUSTEN RANDOLPH

No longer will I look at tomorrow with my head down in a defeated manner. When I meet the future it ...
SHANE PENDLEY

It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, c...
LEE ATWATER

My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
BRETT DALTON

Never felt lyk im alone bcoz my soul always follows me dats wat make me feel im not alone & I"ll nev...
RAKSHAN BHANDARY

You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS

At thirty-five, having spent over twenty years running varied businesses for my family, I decided to...
ASHWIN SANGHI

Im still runnin against the wind
Well Im older now and still
Against the wind
BOB SEGER

My eye was literally pushed out of the socket. The pain was so bad, it was past being a headache. Th...
EARL WOODS

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we d...
ELLEN DEGENERES

Everyone has that friend who's every day, like, 'I hate my nose, I hate my nose, I hate my n...
LAUREN CONRAD

My words control your body and your mind like a symbiot im a phenominon i had to interpose
NOBLE DA GENIUS

My eye was literally pushed out of the socket.
EARL WOODS

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa...
AYN RAND

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a ...
DIZZY DEAN

I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I h...
RACHAEL RAY

I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities
SATHESH KUMAR M

My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE

I learned there were lots of realities in the world.
HARUKI MURAKAMI

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to reali...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON

On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk...
IMAN

Im not trying to prove a point, ... I just want to get it out of my system, and I think I have the o...
ANGEL CORDERO, JR.

Someday no one will remember that she ever existed, I wrote in my notebook, and then, or that I did....
JOHN GREEN

My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. S...
RICK SPRINGFIELD

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...
Otherwis...
MARYUM AHSAM

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS

He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS

Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS

I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS

Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engr...
DINESH KUMAR

When you betray me. I doesn't mean I hate you. It means I no longer dine with you in my kitchen. I n...
SUSIE L HILL

I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ...
STACEY BENDET

My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m...
ISABEL ALLENDE

I have twenty personalities on top of the ten I already have. So now I have thirty people in my head...
RIVER PHOENIX

revolver under my bed as im pouring liquor out
NOBLE DA GENIUS

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late ...
PAULA COLE

Well, that's what I still think, but I am in a rut at work--I hate my job,' I said, allowing my emot...
LUKE LIVELY

You don't know that and I don't know that!
MICHELE COSTELLO

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE

There is no longer any excuse for not adopting corporate IM. But businesses should establish policie...
TOM EID

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and ...
ELLEN DEGENERES

No matter what happens or what you go through im here for you i always will be.No one will keep me f...
NICKOLI LEE ALLEN D'AVANZO

You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION

I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. ...
WILL SMITH

From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the arme...
ADOLF EICHMANN

Feeling happy and blessed with my life right now. I know I have a purpose. Trials will surely come, ...
FE MORALLOS

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. E...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI

Basically, my knee popped out of its socket.
JAY TAYLOR

Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to...
STEVEN SPIELBERG

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid ha...
DONALD HALL

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds ...
LYLE LOVETT

I've been a loud voice as a Democratic leader for years, but that's not my job now. My job i...
JOE GARCIA

I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my ...
TAMAR BRAXTON

I don't know limits, that's why I'am infinite and even when im gone I will still remain Sun
DALADIER

I didn't have any expectations of what my family life would end up being like. But I've been...
JOSH TURNER

I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It wanders to a familia...
JAMES FREY

For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would har...
ORVILLE WRIGHT

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5...
CESAR MILLAN

Im A Good Friend, But Im A Better Enemy.
DONALD C HALL

I'm a widower with three sons and seven grandchildren. One of my sons is my partner on the ranch...
WILFORD BRIMLEY

Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN

I have been grateful for the influence of my grandmother and my grandfather in my life. I remember m...
JAMES E. FAUST

I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try o...
ALBER ELBAZ

The grapes that my hands wouldn’t reach were undoubtedly sour.
But I didn’t need sweet frui...
WATARU WATARI

One day, while sitting and watching shadows play; I caught a glimpse from the corner of my eye...of ...
AFFECTIONET

With every breath I take brings me closer to the day I will no longer be able to breath. I will embr...
STEVEN ESPINOSA

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times appre...
DAVID BRAINERD

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