Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.
– Clarice Lispector
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- What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away. – Anne Carson
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- Baba and I lived in the same house, but in different spheres of existence. Kites were the one paper-thin slice of intersection between those spheres. – Khaled Hosseini
- When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive. – Eileen Wilks
- Great minds birth great ideas.Extraordinary minds birth extraordinary ideas.Transcendent minds birth transcendent ideas. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Before the Plan, there is an Idea. Before the Idea, there is a Purpose. Before the Purpose, there is Your Spirit…aching to express Itself – Paresh Shah
- Can you die for a false idea? Yes. The reason you die is that you believe it’s not a false idea – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Love is dead, and the only thing remained is a small slice of respect. – Kambiz Shabankare
- A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin – Benny Bellamacina
- You are dead, you know!- he screeched delightedly, -œCome on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE! – William Axtell
- It’s a wonderful fantasy, but it’s not real. It’s just watermelon magic. – Hope Ramsay
- If she doesn’t want to go down on you, try improving the taste of your semen by eating watermelon, celery, her ????y. – Matt Fraction
- The screech of tyres, an almighty bang and a car exploded through the playground wall like a high-velocity bullet through a watermelon. – Kev Heritage
- You’re going to have a watermelon come out of your flap-jack and that shit will never be the same. Never. – Madison – Nicole Reed
- Swans sing before they die-” ‘t were no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Accept to die before you live; you shall live free, then accept to live before you die, you shall have a beautiful life – Marcus L Lukusa
- You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea. – Benazir Bhutto
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- An idea? An idea won’t get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world. – Nathan McCall
- Everyone has an idea. But it’s really about executing the idea and attracting other people to help you work on the idea. – Jack Dorsey
- Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- And it occurs to me that there’s no real difference between us, the living and the dead; it’s just a matter of tense: past-dead and future-dead – Rick Yancey
- Don’t cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. And God’s great love is the divinity of birth: the spirit of love, joy and hope. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It is not that you give birth to a child that matters most. Rather, it is what you birth into them. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man. – Shannon Celebi
- It’s odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever. – Bill Holm
- Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead. – Suzanne Collins
- I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years. – Cassandra Clare