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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.


Nellie Melba

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ONE I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
BILL NYE I saw the drawbacks of fame as a kid. It wasn't for me.
DUNCAN JONES The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot es...
ANONYMOUS When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA Music is not written in red, white and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer.
NELLIE MELBA The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
NELLIE MELBA If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia -- I couldn't help it. It's got to be pe...
NELLIE MELBA Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've exper...
MARILYN MONROE How is one bound, and how is one freed of his bonds? How can one escape from the cycle of coming and...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up ...
KAREN M. MCMANUS Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning...
REM KOOLHAAS Being inducted into the Hall of Fame is one of the greatest honors a person can receive.
BOB LASKOWSKI You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE 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 Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've ...
MARILYN MONROE The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.
HANNAH KEARNEY One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu...
VIJAY SETHUPATHI It takes one person to rewrite the history book.
J.R. RIM I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG When we hear of guerilla warfare we think WAR but wait where is the guerilla, it is humans fighting ...
GARY F EVANS... Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside,...
R.D. RONALD Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture...
MICHAEL DIRDA One realises after a while, that indiscriminate opposition with the opposite sex has its drawbacks.[...
THE ROLLING STONES Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
GEORGE ELIOT Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to esca...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT …They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a pe...
RICHARD MATHESON Nothing of fame or fortune can compensate for the spiritual suffering that one possessing such quali...
EDWIN BOOTH The irony of his fame now really is that he was one of the least significant rulers.
DAVID FOSTER It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
BIBLE The one thing that we can never get enough of is Love and the one thing we never give enough is Love...
HENRY MILLER All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
WILLIAM BLACKSTONE Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminal...
OTTO WEININGER No one can escape life's pain. That's life.
PIERCE BROSNAN Things'll get worse before they get better.
KAREN M. MCMANUS If I'm not thinking about one shit storm, I have to think about another.
KAREN M. MCMANUS An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
LEMONY SNICKET When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...
AYN RAND Being chased and how to escape is one way to think about it.
RYAN FORD It's one of those things, you can't escape it. You set your own boundaries and you say as much as yo...
NATALIE IMBRUGLIA The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a madman.
GEORGE ORWELL ...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with i...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
HENRY MILLER He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave ...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you...
FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love.
AVIS COREA İnsanın oturduğu toprakların altında ölüleri yoksa, o adam o toprağın insanı değildir.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Including one team right in his backyard that his father played on for many years and went to the Ha...
ANTHONY MUNOZ There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
ROLAND BARTHES There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it
ROLAND BARTHES Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ...
PATRICK EWING What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections...
T.S. ELIOT It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.
SHANNON L. ALDER You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, nev...
ENID BLYTON Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
LEMONY SNICKET He’d never thought of death like that, like it’s some sort of other life that you can hope for, ...
M.C. FRANK Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us cr...
SHERRILYN KENYON Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth,...
JOHN GREEN Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, think...
JOHN GREEN I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, in...
ELIZABETH SCOTT You can never change the scenery that surrounds you. You can run from the fists that pound you, but ...
HENRY ROLLINS The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
HENRY MILLER Yaam hondaya.......... Gos eem hondaya...........Lowa eththe yaam saha aeem pamanai....Neewith yanna...
I LEARNED THIS FROM ONE OF MY EVERLOVING FRIENDS Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I wish I could see you some day,
Just for a moment, just see you,

I wish I could h...
RATISH EDWARDS Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like...
ANNE SEXTON There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which sho...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance betw...
LEWIS H. LAPHAM A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation ...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
EMILY DICKINSON Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...
T.S. ELIOT All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which ...
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