quotes about Bogs
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You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured! I was cured alright.
-- Anthony Burgess -
What a bog and labyrinth the human essence is... We are all overbrained and overemotioned.
-- Barry HannahSource : Barry Hannah (2007). “Airships”, p.53, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.
-- Daniel Keys Moran -
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
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Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.'
-- Jasmine GuinnessSource : Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2009.
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A creative force that either creates itself or arises from nothing, and which is a causa sui (its own cause), exactly resembles Baron Munchhausen, who drew himself out of the bog by taking hold of his own hair.
-- Ludwig Buchner -
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.
-- Marya Mannes -
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.
-- Robert Smithson -
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He screamed. Mmm?' inquired the gentleman. I...I would never presume to interrupt you, sir. But the ground appears to be swallowing me up.' It is a bog,' said the gentleman, helpfully. It is certainly a most terrifying substance.
-- Susanna Clarke
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“All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds.”
Source : William Bligh (2012). “Mutiny on the Bounty”, p.49, Courier Corporation
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“I love long walks on the beach, big dicks and fried chicken.”
Source : "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (It Takes Two)". TV Series, m.imdb.com. October 22, 2012.