Lynch Quotes

1. "If the Britannica has taught me anything, it's to be more careful. I don't want to turn into an unseemly noun or verb or adjective someday. I don't want to be like Charles Boycott, the landlord in Ireland who refused to lower rents during a famine, leading to the original boycott. I don't want to be like Charles Lynch, who headed an irregular court that hung loyalists during the Revolutionary War. I can't have "Jacobs" be a verb that means staying home all the time or washing your hands too frequently."
Author: A.J. Jacobs

2. "Sí, siempre he pensado que los sueños son anuncios; algunos largos como publirreportajes, otros cortos como tráilers y otros minúsculos teasers. Y todos hablan sobre nuestros deseos. Sin embargo no los entendemos porque es como si los rodara David Lynch"
Author: Albert Espinosa

3. "Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good."
Author: Bill Gross

4. "I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen."
Author: Carmen Ejogo

5. "As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."
Author: Carter G. Woodson

6. "This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom."
Author: Carter G. Woodson

7. "In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies about the civil rights era. Here's the thing: the manifestation of racism has changed but the language has not. So if you haven't lynched somebody then you can't be called a racist. If you're not a bloodsucking monster, then you can't be called a racist. Somebody has to be able to say that racists are not monsters."
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

8. "Acting-wise, I haven't done a lot of comedy, so I would love to work with Jane Lynch. I think she's hilarious."
Author: David Sutcliffe

9. "I follow where the story goes. Always. Every time. Sometimes it goes places where I'm not comfortable... it's at those times that I just listen to my characters, hold on with both hands, and trust that my readers won't lynch me later."
Author: Dennis Sharpe

10. "I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination."
Author: Fred Seibert

11. "I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway."
Author: Greg Egan

12. "Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice."
Author: Henry Louis Gates

13. "The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."
Author: Ida B. Wells

14. "Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter."
Author: Ida B. Wells

15. "Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob."
Author: Ida B. Wells

16. "But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
Author: Isabella Rossellini

17. "Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people."
Author: Jack Nance

18. "We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up."
Author: Jack Nance

19. "And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch."
Author: Jacques Rivette

20. "You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people."
Author: Jacques Verges

21. "Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and no doubts of what to do; without any approach to coarseness, however, or any want of good humour. Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch; and it pleased her."
Author: Jane Austen

22. "Sir Walter Elliot di Kellynch Hall nel Somersetshire, era un uomo che per passare il tempo mai pariva altro libro che non fosse il Baronetage; vi trovava occupazione per un'ora d'ozio, consolazione per una di dolore; la sua mente fremeva d'ammirazione e rispetto, contemplando l'esiguo numero di membri superstiti delle più antiche baronie, e ogni spiacevole sensazione causata da questioni domestiche si mutava in compassione e disprezzo mentre annotava le quasi infinite nomine del secolo precedente;"
Author: Jane Austen

23. "As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs."
Author: Jon Meacham

24. "While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our characters, determines who we are, and what we do."
Author: Julius Lester

25. "Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart."
Author: Kyle MacLachlan

26. "I wanted to go to Jupiter. That was my plan from day one, and David Lynch gave me the ticket."
Author: Laura Dern

27. "It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say."
Author: Laura Dern

28. "An execution carried out in secrecy is no better than lynching from a dry branch."
Author: Loren D. Estleman

29. "His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them"
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

30. "Hey Lynch I didn't leave that car for it to sit while you just blow III"
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

31. "Hey, pal," Matthew whispered. He was the only person who could get away with calling Ronan pal. Matthew Lynch was a bear of a boy, square and solid and earnest. His head was covered with soft, golden curls completely unlike any of his other family members. And in his case, the perfect Lynch teeth were framed by an easy, dimpled smile. He had two brands of smile: the one that was preceded by a shy dip of his chin, a dimple, and then BAM, smile. And the one that teased for a moment before BAM, an infectious laugh. Females of all ages called him adorable. Males of all ages called him buddy. Matthew failed at many more things than either of his older brothers, but unlike Declan or Ronan, he always tried his hardest.Ronan had dreamt one thousand nightmares about something happening to him."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

32. "Ronan didn't sound very interested, but that was part of the Ronan Lynch brand. It was impossible to tell how deep his disinterest truly was."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

33. "The old Ronan Lynch's laugh. No, it was better than that one, because this new one had just a hint of darkness beneath it."
Author: Maggie Stiefvater

34. "Marcel was from Louisiana, so for four years Emily had been southern by association. She insisted on Lynchburg Lemonades. She scheduled interviews around the Gators. She championed gentility. Anyone at a dinner party who thought they could tell a joke making fun of the region encountered a faceful of Emily, quick and ferocious as a convert, as a woman who loved a man. Emily now had no claim to the South. The region and its interests would proceed without her."
Author: Marie Helene Bertino

35. "'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself."
Author: Mark Frost

36. "The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you're brave enough to tar and feather poor friendless cast-out women that come along here, did that make you think you had grit enough to lay your hands on a man? Why, a man's safe in the hands of ten thousand of your kind - as long as it's day-time and you're not behind him."
Author: Mark Twain

37. "What's going on?" Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and the castle interior."I mentioned that you saw the thing and now they want to know what it looks like," Hadrian explained. "What did you think? They were coming to lynch you?"He shrugged. "What can I say? I'm a glass-half-empty kinda guy.""Half empty?" Hadrian chuckled. "Was there ever any drink in that glass?"
Author: Michael J. Sullivan

38. "When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy to forget that many wonderful, goodhearted white people who were generous to others, respectful of their neighbors, and even kind to their black maids, gardeners, or shoe shiners--and wished them well--nevertheless went to the polls and voted for racial segregation... Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system."
Author: Michelle Alexander

39. "Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize that they've been tricked and burn with resentment. Every day of their lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynchings, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, war. This daily diet made sophisticates of them. The sun is a joke. Oranges can't titillate their jaded palates. Nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies. They have been cheated and betrayed. They have slaved and saved for nothing."
Author: Nathanael West

40. "I dodged him for a few months with excuses about not being able to, not having the time to, not being bothered to tape it. When I was out of sensible excuses, I played the race card and told Paul Fine straight: "Taping the album for you is selling out to the white man, letting him have our music. Nah, man. For us by us..." "But you're not black.""Fuck you, Fine. I'm politically black from an oppressed race. Don't speak to me about no race politics or I'll lynch you like you done to my people.""I'm Jewish...""Whatever man. I ain't got no tapes."
Author: Nikesh Shukla

41. "It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office."
Author: Paul Samuelson

42. "My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching."
Author: Ray Charles

43. "Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape."
Author: Ray Stannard Baker

44. "When you work with David Lynch, you never know where he's going next and that's exciting. He's like a magician pulling out new tricks."
Author: Richard Beymer

45. "David Lynch was very good, very patient with us, and the reaction in the United States seems pretty good."
Author: Richard Farnsworth

46. "I used to work as a proofreader at Merrill Lynch."
Author: Sam Trammell

47. "People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you."
Author: Samuel L. Jackson

48. "When I was in the Sex Pistols, I listened to Boston. But I couldn't tell anybody, you know. I'd get lynched."
Author: Steve Jones

49. "A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watcha Christ go up in flames, smiling,as if he were a hookedfish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and burned.His charred bodygives off light--a haloburns out of him. His face is scorched featureless; the hair matted to the scalp like feathers. One man stands with his hand on his hip,another with his armslung over the shoulder of a friend,as if this moment were large enoughto hold affection."
Author: Toi Derricotte

50. "I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
Author: William Westmoreland

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