Quotes of Hung - somelinesforyou

“ I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. ”

- Joshua Reynolds

“ I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on. ”

- Brad Pitt

“ People are too hung up on winning. I can get off on a really good helmet throw. ”

- Bill Lee

“ If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place. ”

- George Eliot

“ By dint of dogged charisma, Brynner has identified himself with a role more than any other actor since Bela Lugosi hung up his fangs. ”

- Richard Corliss

“ When Uncle Bob but his own eyesight. ”

- Vincent Canby

“ And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land of reptiles, silence, shadow, decay. ”

- George Washington Cable

“ I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. ”

- Douglas Adams

“ Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn, dropped face — as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding and thought. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ On a single winged word hath hung the destiny of nations. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. ”

- richard brautigan

“ God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you.". ”

- Billy Graham

“ Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream, my dear. Snags are not so dangerous — it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on. ”

- Anne Shannon Monroe

“ Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate. ”

- Tom Clancy

“ Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ We will sing of great crowds excited by work, by pleasure, and by riot; we will sing of the multicolored, polyphonic tides of revolution in the modern capitals; we will sing of the vibrant nightly fervor of arsenals and shipyards blazing with violent electric moons; greedy railway stations that devour smoke-plumed serpents; factories hung on clouds by the crooked lines of their smoke; bridges that stride the rivers like giant gymnasts, flashing in the sun with a glitter of knives; adventurous steamers that sniff the horizons; deep-cheated locomotives whose wheels paw the tracks like the hooves of enormous steel horses bridled by tubing; and the sleek flight of planes whose propellers chatter in the wind like banners and seem to cheer like an enthusiastic crowd. ”

- Tommaso Marinetti

“ It was a pleasant caf, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old waterproof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a caf au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Underneath an apple-tree sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he yearned, in silence, to discover. Round them danced the sunbeams bright, green the grass-lawn stretched before them while the apple blossoms white hung in rich profusion o'er them. ”

- Will Carleton

“ They have stabbed themselves for freedom — jumped into the waves for freedom — starved for freedom — fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot — and their tyrants have been their historians! ”

- Lydia Maria Child

“ Most of the glories of the world are mere outward show, like the scenes on a stage: there is nothing real about them. Ships festooned and hung with pennants, firing of cannon, illuminations, beating of drums and blowing of trumpets, shouting and applauding — these are all the outward sign, the pretense and suggestion — as it were the hieroglyphic — of joy… ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space. ”

- Gerald Kersh
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