Strewed Over Quotes

#1. Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

Nick Cave

#3. God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

James Hervey

#4. What's the biggest problem?
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People show in the films not the best ideas which have been ever exposed to the world.

Deyth Banger

#5. The talking shows allow me to come out of my cave and that's why those shows go on for so long. I hate walking off stage. Sometimes I walk off and I miss them as I'm walking off the stage. I wonder if they'll let me go another hour. That's why I do it: to communicate, to get points across.

Henry Rollins

#6. Old age is a lease nature only signs as a particular favor, and it may be, to one, only in the space of two or three ages; and then with a pass to boot, to carry him through, all the traverses and difficulties she has strewed in the way of his long career.

Michel De Montaigne

#7. Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

William Blake

#8. All men would be cowards if they could.

John Wilmot

#9. And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

Jane Austen

#10. families, revealing insights that cannot be found in published histories. Brown doggedly cross-checks information about each grave in emigrant journals, land records, and nineteenth-century newspapers. A lifetime of searching for graves along the Oregon and California trails has also allowed him

Rinker Buck

#11. Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.

Jools Holland

#12. The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

Phillips Brooks

#13. Some places in the world, such as Ramsar, Iran, have a tenfold higher background radiation,

John Brockman

#14. You can't make someone love you just because you want them to. It has to be freely given or it doesn't mean anything.

S.J. West

#15. My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has eyes and sees, they won't be seen - and still everyone will never forget having once looked at them.

Alfred Stieglitz

#16. There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.

Andrew Vachss

#17. I felt like there was a certain standard that we held 'Strangers' to, so I think about that whenever I work on something.

Paul Dinello

#18. Everyone knows the ship could sink, unable to hold the piles of bodies that keep crawling on like raging ants from a disrupted nest. But no one is heartless enough to say stop because what if they had been stopped before their turn?

Thanhha Lai