#died

It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot. ↗

— Edmond About

#collected #country #every #examined #i

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#eventually #fighting #got #grew #had

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#enough #me #operatic #soon #star

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#died #doctor #go #never #office

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#conformity #died #dissent #ever #lifetime

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#medical #medicine #never #novels #operation

The day of the daredevil reporter who refuses to see obstacles to getting the truth, and seeing it with his or her own eyes, seems to have died. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#day #died #eyes #getting #her

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

#died #different #dreams #father #i