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You don't hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.
— Kendrick Lamar
At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath.
— Arthur Compton
We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
All great adventures start with an idea.
— A.J. Compton
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
— Compton Mackenzie
Many people misjudge the permanent effect of sorrow, and their capacity to live in the past.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Did you ever notice how the words Attention and Alienation look the same when you are staring at them from a distance?
— Alisia Compton
I never know why self-sacrifice is noble. Why is it better to sacrifice oneself than someone else?
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
— Venus Williams
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
— Compton Mackenzie
I loved him before I knew him. I missed him before I met him. We were soulmates long before we were strangers.
— A.J. Compton
There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is so subtle to write things that have no meaning
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Take heed little children
lest what you hold dear.
Be taken way from you
with not the shedding of tear. — Michael J. Compton
lest what you hold dear.
Be taken way from you
with not the shedding of tear. — Michael J. Compton
A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It's a great day for TWA.
— William Compton
Everything is breaking stones, up to a point.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is in our minds that we live much of our life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Nobody sees me like you do, and without you, I'll be invisible. I exist because you see me.
— A.J. Compton
Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Grief is always amplified in silence.
— A.J. Compton
We're once again just a boy and a girl searching and failing for words and moments that transcend the mundane.
— A.J. Compton
A memory is never as good as a moment.
— A.J. Compton
A life full of love' is just another way to say living.
— A.J. Compton
Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and it is oblivious of age or gender
— Rodney Compton
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.
— Compton Mackenzie
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
— Arthur Holly Compton
A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.
— Ralph Compton
Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.
— A.J. Compton
Sometimes things don't have to have a point. There's a special kind of beauty and freedom in the just because.
— A.J. Compton
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Adequate photographers use their sight, good photographers use their senses, and great photographers use their souls.
— A.J. Compton
Things can't mend without being broken.
— A.J. Compton
Oklahoma is very beautiful, and Eric loves beauty, but he already has that in you.
— Charlaine Harris
Sometimes absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder. Sometimes it just makes the heart hurt.
— A.J. Compton
To a Mormon at the doorstep of a psychologis: I know what you think you think, but I know what you think.
— Rodney Compton
You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.
— A.J. Compton
For me, one of the pleasures of cats company is their devotion to bodily comfort.
— Compton Mackenzie
Of course I am grateful, and I'm sure you are, as you put it, a special vintage," Bill said politely, "But I have my own wine cellar.
— Charlaine Harris
We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Duty is seldom liked either by the doer or the object ... And why should it be? It is not often of advantage to either.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.
— Charlaine Harris
Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
What concerns anyone so much as the time he has to live?
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The wrong is never the only thing a wrong-doer has done.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Real life seems to have no plots.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.
— Compton Mackenzie
I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Never is a long word.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
He greeted the twins like they were all from the same hood in Compton and gave Dex and me the head nod.
— Karina Halle
Civilized life exacts its toll.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
— Arthur H. Compton
My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
— Kendrick Lamar
Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)
— John Cleese
I want more movies like 'Straight Outta Compton.' Showing our stories of triumph, we'll make it through, and we'll get to something better.
— O'Shea Jackson Jr.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams
— Compton Mackenzie
I'm hallucinating meaning.
— A.J. Compton
When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.
— Kym Whitley
Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.
— John Hartford
Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.
— Arthur Compton
I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie.
— Scout Taylor-Compton
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
— Compton Mackenzie
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
To young people the future is still long.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There is more difference within the sexes than between them.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
People have never lost what they think they have.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
The most original novelist now writing in English.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling ...
— Ivy Compton-Burnett
There are two types of women. The ones who wait to receive flowers and the ones who go out and pick them.
— A.J. Compton
We are always children to our mothers.
— Ivy Compton-Burnett