Ambrose Bierce Quotes

True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked 'Unknown,' and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in 'honoring the memory' of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

Ambrose Bierce

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• So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

  

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• I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

  

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• Being evil is easy.

  

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• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

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• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

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• I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

  

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• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

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• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

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• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

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• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

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• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

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• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

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• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

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• I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'

  

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• I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!

  

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• I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

  

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• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

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• When you're 23, 24 years old and somebody's given you a credit card and jets and limos and you don't have to pay the bill when it comes in - that's a pretty nice deal.

  

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• I would kick this bad world's ass if I could just get on my feet

  

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• People who make lots of money at what they do should just shut up about it.

  

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• I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.

  

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• I just feel like there's something to be said about feeling comfortable with what you have and don't have. And - for instance, I don't think I'm particularly a great singer, but I feel like I write songs that complement my voice, you know, and I feel like it's unique. And I don't feel like I'm particularly a great actor, for instance, but I feel like I approach each thing that I do with some level of sensitivity. And I would say that comedy in general is the most disarming.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked 'Unknown,' and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in 'honoring the memory' of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Great
  • True
  • Honor