Ethan Canin Quotes

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• Live fast, die young.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Live
  • Die
  • Fast

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Die
  • Win
  • Hunger

• I am very honored and excited to have 'Devotion' released as the first DVD Audio disc... surround sound is amazing... The music comes alive and is so vibrant - it's unlike anything you've ever heard before!

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Alive
  • Devotion

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Die
  • Film
  • Animation

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• 'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Die

• 'When you are dead your spirit will find my spirit,And then we shall die no more.'

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Die

• My trainer was a great guy … who made me want to die for an hour. My character was spending most of his life in a state of hunger, and I wanted to get a sense of that, physically and mentally.

  

  Liam Hemsworth
  • Life
  • Great
  • Character

• I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

  

  Fritz Kreisler
  • Great
  • Men
  • Death

• When you come into a house like Saint Laurent, or Chanel, or Lanvin, and you go into a place that existed before you were born and will exist after you die, it takes some time to get in, to get to people, and to get the energy of the place.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• Not all of the Islamic State killers are going to die on the battlefield.

  

  James Comey
  • Die
  • Islamic

• I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is not justification by faith alone. It is not even justification by good works or by a combination of faith and works. The prevailing notion of justification in our culture today is justification by death. All one has to do to be received into the everlasting arms of God is to die.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Die
  • Might
  • Majesty

• I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

  

  Anthony Head

• Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

  

  Otto Loewi
  • Process
  • Rise
  • Progressive

• I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thoughts
  • Dreams
  • I Can

• You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

  

  Ethan Canin
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