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.

  

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  • Play
  • Getting Better

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

  

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  • 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
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• Research can trap you into the past.

  

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

  

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

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Young
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• MTV ruined music for us.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Music
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• 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
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• 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

• The King is a fighting piece. Use it!

  

  Wilhelm Steinitz
  • Fighting
  • King
  • Piece

• Even in the grave, all is not lost.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Lost
  • Grave

• I have not thought about it, but when I die, just dance on my grave and water the plants with what you are drinking. Please do not clone me, because after a while your clone is not as bright as you are.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Die
  • Dance
  • Grave

• There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

  

  Merle Haggard
  • Stink

• To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before

  

  Rollo May
  • Sorrow
  • Negative
  • Disappointment

• 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