Collapsed Quotes
134 quotes by 129 authors
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Arab civilization has collapsed. It won’t recover in my lifetime.
— Hisham Melhem
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The I-95 bridges were built in the early 1960s and are now more than 50 years old. The same vintage as the I-35 bridge that…
— Ed Rendell
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Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two…
— Claire Danes
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My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'
— Nicole Kidman
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As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital.
— Doris Lessing
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Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour…
— Gary Numan
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I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got…
— Ben Okri
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No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible…
— Vladimir Putin
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
— Yakov Smirnoff
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Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up
— Frank O'Hara
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So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was…
— John Green
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And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous…
— Che Guevara
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And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And…
— Mark Haddon
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And then he left, and came back, and our lives fell apart, like a well-loved book that you’d read and read again, until one night…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Or perhaps is is that time doesn't heal wounds at all, perhaps that is the biggest lie of them all, and instead what happens is…
— Thrity Umrigar
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Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Now I can do the bolts," she slurred. "I've been trying to focus enough magic all week." The magic shifted and swirled, finally etching a…
— Eoin Colfer
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Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was…
— Frank O'Hara
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