Jack London Quotes

My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.

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• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Great
  • Death

• In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Years

• Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Family
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.

  

  Young Thug
  • Attention
  • Always
  • Close

• Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Death
  • End

• I am a control freak. I am very hands on and pay attention to details.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Control
  • Attention
  • Details

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Family
  • Death

• My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

  

  Becky G
  • House
  • Attention
  • Singing

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Art
  • Death

• The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Men
  • Death
  • Black

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• There are still parts of the country where it's hard: when you realize you're gay, it's like a death sentence.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • Country
  • Death
  • Gay

• Oh, I just love being a character actress. You have a lot of fun, and not only that, you save tons on cosmetic surgery because you never have to have liposuction.

  

  Marcia Gay Harden
  • Character
  • Fun

• I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear.

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Quality
  • Shoes

• I definitely try to keep some level of style on my days off because you never know who's going to snap your picture.

  

  Jesse Lee Soffer
  • Style
  • Picture

• I'll tell you that the dog whistle politics is badly missing the mark. Because, you know, as I've been speaking about it, sure, I've got some racists who come and complain about it. That happens. Right? But I have been absolutely overwhelmed - absolutely overwhelmed - by the number of everyday people who have contacted me with one simple question: what can I do to help?

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • People
  • Simple
  • Dog

• My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.

  

  Jack London
  • Death
  • Attention