#killed

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else. ↗

— Allan Sherman

#automobile #crash #else #getting #happens

Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him. ↗

— William Burroughs

#except #finally #hemingway #him #his

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. ↗

— Truman Capote

#bones #cold #did #down #ever

Totalitarian states killed with impunity and no one was held accountable. That didn't happen in the West. ↗

— John le Carre

#happen #held #impunity #killed #states

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#beast #before #killed #never #sell

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#difficulty #find #how #i #killed

As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million. ↗

— George Wald

#as far as #attack #conservative #estimates #everything

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#amazing #film #got #i #i am

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#before #bin #even #irrelevant #killed

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on. ↗

— Victoria Wood

#internet #kill #killed #radio #television