Strangling Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

I regret that children died, but I felt like God. It was the power of God over a human being. ... I got very little… — Peter Woodcock
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon. — William Zinsser
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
Fonny and I just sat there... while the voices of the congregation rose and rose around us, without mercy... Teddy had the tambourine, and gave… — James A. Baldwin
Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi. — Seth Green
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib. — Quincy Jones
Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business. — Meg Whitman
Plenty of people did not care for him much, but then there is a huge difference between disliking somebody - maybe even disliking them a… — Douglas Adams
America is full of businesses bearing old Christian names, but which are really owned and run by Jews. Most of them have been acquired in… — Samuel Roth
The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a… — Jerry Stahl
There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way. — Helen Rowland
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. — John Gregory Dunne
And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face... and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace. Then… — Michael Jackson
My dad was proud of himself when he farted. He sounds like he's strangling a chicken when he farts. — Carl Barron
Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity… — John Ross Macduff
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't… — Jim Butcher
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go,… — Dennis Nilsen
Just when you feel like hauling him off and strangling hin, he gets some goal out of nowhere. — Martin O'Neill
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It… — Rachel Corrie
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… — Raymond Chandler

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