Hang Quotes - page 2

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce. (Mark Twain)
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it! View quote
Sophia Bush
The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me. View quote
Glenn Close
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it. View quote
Lionel Shriver
India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable. View quote
Lal Bahadur Shastri
You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it. View quote
Sally Schneider
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I would shout, 'Freedom for the working class! View quote
Mary Harris Jones
Now you hung with me when all the others turned away turned up their nose. We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes. We told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen. Now I wished you would have told me, I wished I could have talked to you. Just to say goodbye Bobby Jean. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Give him enough rope and he will hang himself. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold. (Francis Parkman)
Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Capitalists will sell us the rope we will hang them with. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be "Governor bush." I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore. View quote
George Carlin
Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one 'Sordello.' View quote
Ezra Pound
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. View quote
Henry James
I hung up. It was a step in the right direction, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk. View quote
Raymond Chandler
A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junk time to start. A sick junkie has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait. View quote
William S. Burroughs
There's no free will," says the philosopher; "To hang is most unjust." "There is no free will," assents the officer; "We hang because we must. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
It seems like a cliche, but you do grow up a lot faster when you travel a lot, go through things like this interview, spend time away from home and hang around with other actors. It's inevitable that you're not going to have a so-called normal childhood. (Matt Dillon)
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying. View quote
Steven Wright
Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
Like running hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone. View quote
Orson Scott Card
A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage. View quote
Edward Albee