Quotes with hanging

  • We were brash young fellows'. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.
  • Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
  • My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
  • No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
  • What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
  • There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.
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  • O. Henry You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Bragg All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Marquis de Sade Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Robert Frost Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Bonnie Jo Campbell For 'King Cole's American Salvage,' I rode around in the wrecker with a local driver and watched him deal with customers and hook up the cars. I watched the guy who tore apart the cars in the junkyard. I also wrote poems about those guys. I loved hanging around the yard.
    Bonnie Jo Campbell
    American writer
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  • Fred A. Allen Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • John Bunyan Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Bono Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Carole King He moved with some uncertainty, as if he didn't know
    Just what he was there for, or where he ought to go
    Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
    And his hand come down empty...
    Tapestry (1971)
    Carole King
    American singer-songwriter (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Parry I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
    As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
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  • Adriana Lima I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.
    Adriana Lima
    Brazilian model and actress (1981 - )
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  • Beck I'm not good at the protocols of dating. I'm not really experienced in that. My girlfriend is my second or third girlfriend. I think in the past none of us really knew when we were dating-we were just hanging out and doing things. I didn't go to high school so I missed the prom.
    Jane magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Bob Dole If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.
    Bob Dole
    American politician and attorney (1923 - )
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  • Joyce Chapman If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
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  • Ann Macbeth In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Banksy It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
    Banksy
    England-based anonymous street artist and political activist
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  • Aaron Allston Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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