Georges Brassens Quotes

I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

Georges Brassens

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• I wanted to just come out and continue to improve my game, continue to improve my mental capacity to play well in tournaments. I've had a slow year compared to last year, but I've been pleased because I felt like I was getting better.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Game
  • Play
  • Getting Better

• As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Time
  • Who I Am

• Democracy is the best chance for the best people.

  

  Robert Frost
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Mind
  • Breath
  • Planets

• Research can trap you into the past.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Business
  • Past
  • Research

• What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Yourself
  • Laughing

• Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Young
  • Though

• MTV ruined music for us.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Music
  • MTV

• The mother condemned for a witch and burnt with dry wood, and her children gazing on; The hounded slave that flags in the race and leans by the fence, blowing and covered with sweat, The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, The murderous buckshot and the bullets, All these I feel or am.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Slave

• PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Light
  • Poetry
  • Phosphorescence

• Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

  

  Andy Borowitz
  • Right
  • Gun
  • Shot

• Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Duty

• Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don’t have the ovaries" (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Mom
  • Sound
  • Ovaries

• I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Memories
  • Failures
  • Fights

• The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The moon, their mistress, had expir'd before; The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; Darkness had no need Of aid from them-She was the Universe.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Universe
  • Dead
  • Grave

• The Universe responds to specificity.

  

  Romany Malco
  • Universe
  • Specificity

• I've left this life with no rancour, I'll never have toothache again, Now I lie in the communal grave, the communal grave of time.

  

  Georges Brassens
  • Grave
  • Communal
  • Rancour