Telegraphic Sentence Quotes & Sayings

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime. — Simone De Beauvoir

I want to be a bloated alcoholic. That's my goal - it is, I'm serious, because there is no other disease that is more fun than alcoholism. I know it has its downside, but I'll tell you, there's no other party disease like alcohol. — Dom Irrera

I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music before that, and I played a bit of guitar when I was younger and thought maybe I'd become a guitar teacher or something, but when I saw other kids doing it, I was like, 'Whoa, these are great bands! I can do it, too.' — Mac DeMarco

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.' — Emily Robison

HE WAS KNOWN As DJANGO, a Gypsy name meaning "I awake." His legal name-the name the gendarmes and border officials entered into their journals as his family crisscrossed Europe in their horsedrawn caravan-was jean Reinhardt. But when the family brought their travels to a halt alongside a hidden stream or within a safe wood to light their cookfire, they called him only by his Romany name. Even among his fellow Gypsies, "Django" was a strange name, a strong, telegraphic sentence due to its first-person verb construction. It was a name of which Django was exceedingly proud. It bore an immediacy, a sense of life, and a vision of destiny. — Michael Dregni

Beware, ye Gods, for the sun is up and I am awake. — Peter Clenott

My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.
I lock away the things that do not serve me. — Tahereh Mafi

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon, than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses. — William Shakespeare