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I used to work the graveyard shift. -- Bradley Cooper
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green. -- Conor Oberst
Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights. -- Whitey Herzog
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard. -- Alexander Cockburn
How many kids are in the Graveyard?""A bunch.""Who sends your supplies?""George Washington. Or is it Abraham Lincoln? I forget.""How often do you receive new arrivals?""About as often as you beat your wife. -- Neal Shusterman
The Graveyard of the Atlantic exhibit reflects the aquarium's proximity to the state's Outer Banks, where thousands of ships have run aground over the centuries. Divers in the exhibit carry on a conversation with visitors outside the tank. -- John Grant
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle
My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards. -- Samuel Beckett
I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians. -- Gary Larson
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects. -- Paul Farmer
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard. -- Zubin Mehta
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals. -- George Bernard Shaw
New!Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. -- Neil Kinnock
There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. -- John F. Kennedy
Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen. -- Garth Brooks
There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring. -- Adah Isaacs Menken
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- J. Frank Dobie
Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires. -- James G. Stavridis
Don't die old, die empty. That's the goal of life. Go to the cemetery and disappoint the graveyard. -- Myles Munroe
The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. -- Robert Smithson
Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas. -- Mark Udall
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Robert Jackson
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard. -- Patrick Kavanagh
Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them! -- Calvin Coolidge
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Robert Jackson
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted. -- Mark Haddon
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. -- Samuel Beckett
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge. -- Erich Fromm
Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard. -- Mark Twain
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids. -- Tina Brown
No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. -- John F. Kennedy
On Staten Island, there's a ship graveyard. I'm using that a lot, even for 'Under the Dome.' When I'm dissatisfied with a location scout, I go on Google Earth. It's an amazing tool. -- Niels Arden Oplev
On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s. -- Lewis Gordon Pugh
Science was false by being unpoetical. It assumed to explain a reptile or a mollusk, and isolated it-which is hunting for life in graveyards. Reptile or mollusk or man or angel only exists in system, in relation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each person is a graveyard of his thoughts. They are most beautiful for us in the moment of their birth; later we can often sense a deep pain that they leave us indifferent where earlier they enchanted us. -- Robert Musil
The graveyard is the richest place on the surface of the earth because there you will see the books that were not published, ideas that were not harnessed, songs that were not sung, and drama pieces that were never acted. -- Myles Munroe
I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it. -- Colin Quinn
By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis. -- Eric Bristow
For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should wait and create my own projects... do independent movies before I would have to go and do reality shows. Or produce one and come up with one on my own! -- Tamala Jones
I unloaded planes for UPS in Louisville, Kentucky. It only was bad because it was called 'Earn to Learn,' where you pay for your tuition for college, but you have to work graveyard shift - midnight to eight A.M. - and then go to school at nine or 10 A.M. I was a zombie after two semesters. -- Boyd Holbrook
I sort of tried to get a basketball scholarship out of high school, but that didn't happen. Then I started working for UPS, and that paid for tuition for school. I moved to a bigger town, Louisville. I did it for a year. I had to work the graveyard shift. And then you get off at eight for classes, so that sucked. Then I dropped out. -- Boyd Holbrook
I want to be an example of a guy who made something of himself out of nothing. A guy who overcame the odds of a tough childhood, who worked hard, who didn't let his surroundings get the best of him and lead him to jail or the graveyard. Where I ended up - being a comedian, a TV star, and a movie actor - might be unique, but my story is not. -- Tracy Morgan
every heart has its graveyard. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Academia is a graveyard of poets. -- Kathleen Raine
Welcome to the graveyard of ambition -- David Nicholls
A green Christmas makes a fat graveyard. -- Inez Haynes Irwin
Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard. -- Immanuel Kant
The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
The feminine vanity-case is the graveyard of masculine illusions. -- Helen Rowland
The sky is so tragically beautiful. A graveyard of stars. -- Anonymous
System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy. -- Fred Brooks
If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections. -- Neil Gaiman
Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead. -- Anne Sexton
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. -- Arthur Lynch
A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. -- Malala Yousafzai
I-man say donâ??t make jah body a graveyard for de dead animals, -- Bob Marley
Me. A bad boy. For eating boiled peanuts in the graveyard. Go figure. -- Nicholas Sparks
Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality. -- Charles Bukowski
Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises. -- Teresa Heinz
Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection. -- Langston Hughes
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. -- Maureen Dowd
Each night I lie down in a graveyard of memories. Moonlight spins a shroud about me. -- Jerry Spinelli
The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen! -- Soren Kierkegaard
They will try to enter Baghdad, and I think this is where their graveyard will be -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won. -- Darryl Worley
Being in jail is difficult too because it's like being in a graveyard, you can't do much. -- Benazir Bhutto
Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library. -- Pete Seeger
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried. -- Chogyam Trungpa
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals. -- George Bernard Shaw
We destroy ourselves when we stop feeling. If you bury your feelings within you, you become a graveyard. -- Bernie Siegel
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. -- Holly Black
You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house. -- Anne Sexton
Look at any city through the right memories and it could become a graveyard as haunted as a former battlefield. -- Christopher Rice
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". -- Russell Brand
I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard. -- Charles Bukowski
Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy. -- Neil Gaiman
It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard. -- Neil Gaiman
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. -- Nelson Mandela
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. -- M.I.A.
The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable. -- Joyelle McSweeney
I think that's the graveyard of musicians, playing cabaret. I think I'd rather be dead than work in cabaret. It's just so depressing. -- Elton John
It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living. -- Diane Frolov
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. -- Ralph Nader
The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America. Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy. -- Ronald Reagan
Death is a convention, a certification to the end of pain, something for the vital statistics book, not binding upon anyone but the keepers of graveyard records. -- Wallace Stegner
Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity. -- Chinua Achebe
Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard. -- Kim Harrison
Congress is the great enabler, constitutionally, for progressive society, and it's the great graveyard, the way it's been behaving, against a prosperous society, or another billionaire or two. -- Ralph Nader
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. -- Albert Payson Terhune
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books. -- Carlos Fuentes
The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too. -- Andrea Dworkin
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts. -- Andre Malraux
Trying to accumulate wealth by the sweat of your brow and hard labor is one way to become the richest man in the graveyard. You do not have to strive or slave hard. -- Joseph Murphy
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. -- Rumi
Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him?" - Cat to Bones -- Jeaniene Frost
I got a golden handshake that nearly broke my arm I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people I got rust upon my hands from the padlocked factory gates Silent chimneys provide the silent steeples -- Fish

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