Deadening Shot Quotes & Sayings

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy! — Pierre Corneille

Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around. — Thomas Mallon

We did our best, Anna and I. We forgave each other for all we were not. — John Banville

If you look upon ham and eggs and lust, you have already committed breakfast in your heart. — C.S. Lewis

Books like a box of chocolates; each one sweet and unique! — Pamela Tomlin

All the proliferating falsifications of what I and everyone I know experienced once in what it is now so convenient to call the "fifties" or "sixties," as if life was really measured or lived in arbitrary decades, when the history books are sold like comix. — Lester Bangs

Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know! — Voltaire

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. — Ishmael Butler

Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone. — Sarah Dessen

Everything I had learned or assimilated from my parents I now regarded as unreliable, and needing to be rethought from scratch. In fact, I probably went further-I felt that everything my parents believed was by definition wrong, and that if I ever felt myself in agreement with my parents I should immediately recant. Everything ... needed to be jettisoned. But in a way what they said wasn't the problem: what I was more worried about was the attitudes, prejudices, beliefs I might have picked up from them subconsciously or before I was old enough to even know what I was learning. Effectively, I had to question everything I believed, and never accept my own instincts. It required constant vigilance; it was intellectually exhausting. — Lynn Barber