Téa Obreht quote: "It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice."

The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.
JOSEPH STALIN

I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ...
EVA LONGORIA

Nothing trumps honesty, as far as I'm concerned.
DAVID KOECHNER

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.
STEPHANIE BEACHAM

As far as I know, I have no pride of opinion.
ALBERT J. NOCK

In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER

As far as festivals, nothing tops Cannes.
SASHA LANE

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY

To question reason is to trust it.
MITCH STOKES

I saw Chris as a big, physical back. Obviously, the people in high school had a hard time tackling h...
BRIAN WHITE

Its devastating to think of them going through---what they are going through as far as just getting ...
CINDI WILLIAMS

I used to rarely go on film sets, as I felt it was very boring to see the same shot being done so ma...
RAM CHARAN

As far as working out, I know exactly what I'm doing.
EVANDER HOLYFIELD

My daughter didn't deserve to die this way, she didn't deserve to be shot in the head with a shotgun...
ROGER PARKER

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL

His truck was all shot at. He saw his friend being dragged out and being stoned first. And the guy i...
JOANNE BRADSHAW

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. MORGAN

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
THOMAS CARLYLE

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
FANNIE HURST

This is by far the best thing I've ever done as far as school goes. This is everything I wanted to g...
JACOB JENKINS

I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano.
ETHEL MERMAN

Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON

You know, if it weren't for these fans, I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did.
ADAM LAMBERT

I don’t know why Kate was trying to impress him, as far as I could see the guy had all the allure ...
SHARON SANT

I'm gonna push this as far as I can push it, because my son did not deserve to die.
CAROLINE CAMPBELL

You couldn’t see the thing until he shot his head out,
WILLIAM MYERS

I think we kind of need to regroup and get back to how we know how to play. Because as far as talent...
CYNDY KENYON

As far as I can judge, not much good can be done without disturbing something or somebody.
EDWARD BLAKE

It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY

Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word....
CHRISTOPHER FRY

As far as I'm concerned, Dennis Rader does not deserve to live. I want him to suffer as much as he m...
BEVERLY PLAPP

As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH

This is like being at your own funeral.
FRED BERRY

As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON

I don't know what it is about 'Godzilla,' but as far as I'm concerned, the more vers...
RHYS DARBY

I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once...
TWYLA THARP

As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
JACK LEVINE

There's nothing like working with your mates - it's the way it should be, as far as I'm ...
HEATH LEDGER

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change n...
CLAUDE CHABROL

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man ...
SARAH BRIGHTMAN

Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.
RONALD REAGAN

You just have to go as far as you can go. Everyone works his way up.
DAVID ORTIZ

He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military vo...
WILKIE COLLINS

You deserve every star in the galaxy laid out at your feet and a thousand diamonds in your hair. You...
JAY KRISTOFF

I know that look.” Jack shook his head ruefully. “Doan worry; she’ll
give you your balls ...
KRESLEY COLE

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.
RACHEL ROY

We had no shot of making that one. You have 1.26 seconds and (holder) B.J. (Sander) has a clock in h...
RYAN LONGWELL

I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Gu...
FRANK BLACK

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what yo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.
ADAM JONES

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. RAYMOND

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.
GARRY TRUDEAU

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.
JOYCE MEYER

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE

Television's going, as far as I'm concerned, downhill, and I'm an anachronism.
DICK VAN DYKE

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
JEF RASKIN

As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
JON BATISTE

As far as natural ability, I was always athletic.
TROY BROWN

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.
DAVE MADDEN

I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS

I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
TINA YOTHERS

As far as I'm concerned, there's no job more important on the planet than being a mom.
MARK WAHLBERG

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.
HELEN REDDY

You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C.

As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue!
DEYTH BANGER

The only contact we could have with the void was through this little the void had produced as quinte...
ITALO CALVINO

As far as I know, the original 'X-Men' actors will remain in the franchise.
BEN HARDY

A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on ou...
SOURCE UNKNOWN

Thus, as far as he is a scientific man, as far as he knows anything, he is a materialist; out...
FRIEDRICH ENGELS

I know he hurt his knee last year and he had it cleaned out this summer, ... I think there's a small...
CARROLL DAWSON

With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Becau...
RONY ABOVITZ

Oh, Caddy," said Saffron miserably.
"I know. It's awful. But I'm going. We all should."
"I...
HILARY MCKAY

Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.
F. J. RAYMOND

Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the...
FERNANDO PESSOA

Oh, tell me, who first declared, who first proclaimed that man only does nasty things because he doe...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came ...
JEROME K. JEROME

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature . . . what compulsions drive a man, what inst...
WILLIAM BERNBACH

The players can feel comfortable in that they would still be part of the program as far as why they ...
GERALD MYERS

I have the softest beard in the world. As far as growing it, it doesn't itch, and it's so no...
ATO ESSANDOH

He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ...
STEVEN MILLHAUSER

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed m...
NORAH JONES

To hold the Port Authority twice as liable as the terrorists for the 1993 bombing stands logic, rati...
MARC KASOWITZ

For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the ti...
BJORK

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. H...
FRANCINE RIVERS

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of stro...
TAYE DIGGS

An adopted son shall never take the family ,name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral c...
GURU NANAK

As he stepped forward with the guitar, the standing ovation just drove him back, ... As he stepped f...
DICK WATERMAN

As a one-shot deal; this frees RIM to go back to its business without any further complications.
AVI GREENGART

J. Edgar Hoover very famously denied the existence of organized crime up until the Appalachian Meeti...
TERENCE WINTER

Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself...
DALAI LAMA

It's a sad thing to see, because as far as I know, this man Gavo had done nothing to deserve being shot in the back of the head at his own funeral. Twice.

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