"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings."
- Robert Benchley
"They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tea..."
- N'Zuri Za Austin
"It is early, early morning. It's that time when it's still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying."
- Markus Zusak
"It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it."
- Francine Pascal
"One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't get arr..."
- Tyler Hamilton
"When something or someone you dearly love is snatched away from you, something of you go with it. You become emotionally amputated"
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he’d peed himself, it didn’t matter, none of it mattered,..."
- Henry V. O'Neil
"It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes."
- Flannery O'Connor
"I ‘am shaggy as rivers, forests and mountains My eyes see the universe natural and super My mind is of many cuts Non-identical I have fought demons Half-horse, half alligator I ‘am victorious, I bled"
- John E. Wordslinger
"So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest of the days of the trial, I must. My every flinch, every flicker of pain, will bemagnif..."
- Ann Aguirre