“ For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ”
- Georges Rouault- Copy
- 391
“ The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. ”
- John Gregory Dunne- Copy
- 2.5K
“ A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ”
- Sir Barnett Cocks- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas. ”
- Robert Lynd- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 1.5K
“ A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ”
- Sir Barnett Cocks- Copy
- 940
“ Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ”
- Georges Rouault- Copy
- 1.2K
“ I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 2.4K
“ How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. ”
- Jeremy Collier- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon. ”
- William Zinsser- Copy
- 2.3K
“ By putting his hand around my neck, he slowly strangled himself. ”
- Minako Ohba- Copy
- 1.1K
“ A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. ”
- Barnett Cock- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. ”
- Denis Diderot- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
- 1.6K
“ We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail…We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self if often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations… ”
- Julie Cameron- Copy
- 80
“ But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us… ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2K
“ A good actor is like watching a great musician, but having a bad actor terrifies me, because it means I've got to find something to say or something to do. And that's really frustrating, because you want to be concentrating on everything, and instead you find yourself bogged down with helping someone know their lines or not bump into the furniture, and that's when you want to strangle them. ”
- Paul Thomas Anderson- Copy
- 1.2K
“ It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
- 2.7K
“ The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. We find it easier to add a new study or course or kind of school than to recognize existing conditions so as to meet the need… ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
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