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  • That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.

    Source: www.democracynow.org
  • You know, radio DJ's must really love to talk to theirselves. Especially when they have the graveyard shift. 'Hey this is Ellen with 89.1. It is currently three in the morning. There are few cars on the road. And it your still listening heres a little music to get you to dance.

    Morning   Car   Listening  
  • My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

    Heart   Soul   Crow  
  • Soon or late, every dog's master's memory becomes a graveyard; peopled by wistful little furry ghosts that creep back unbidden, at times, to a semblance of their olden lives.

    Dog   Memories   Animal  
    Terhune, Albert Payson (2014). “A Book of Famous Dogs”, p.79, Read Books Ltd
  • I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

    Girl   Brother   Writing  
  • At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

    House   Childhood   Dolls  
  • Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

    Soccer   War   Marine  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

    Nature   Cities   Want  
  • The bookstore was a parking lot for used graveyards. Thousands of graveyards were parked in rows like cars. Most of the books were out of print, and no one wanted to read them any more and the people who had read the books had died or forgotten about them, but through the organic process of music the books had become virgins again.

    Book   People   Car  
    Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull.

  • Academia is a graveyard of poets.

  • Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.

    Cat   Sick   Littles  
    "Louis Armstrong - The Reluctant Millionaire". "Ebony" Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, November 1964.
  • alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

    Wall   Fate   Men  
    Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”
  • Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

    Death   Air   Dying  
    First Love (1973) p. 8
  • Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  • We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived, and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

    Life   Believe   Health  
    FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 06, 2013
  • In this way they went on, and on, and on-in the language of the story-books-until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass; as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world!) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.

    Charles Dickens (1872). “Works of Charles Dickens”, p.123
  • Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

    Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.115, A&C Black
  • Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.

    Business   Wall   Men  
  • The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

    Memories   Past   Reality  
    Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press
  • It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

  • Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much.

    Interview With Javed Soomro, newslinemagazine.com. April 2005.
  • I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

  • Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

    Feet   Busy   Graveyard  
    Anne Sexton, “A Curse Against Elegies”
  • There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

    Hands   Knives   Darkness  
    Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.5, A&C Black
  • Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

    "Paul Farmer Examines Haiti 'After The Earthquake'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 11, 2011.
  • I feel like I'm living in the dead weeds of hip-hop. I live in the graveyard of what went wrong with hip-hop.

    Weed   Hip Hop   Hips  
    "Kehinde Wiley". Interview with M.I.A., www.interviewmagazine.com. November 19, 2008.
  • When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead!

  • I used to work the graveyard shift.

    Used   Graveyard  
  • If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.

    Graveyard   Ifs  
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