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Definition of Lynch

Lynch

To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person. See Lynch law.

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Lynch Quotations

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.
Ray Charles

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
Jerry Garcia

You can no longer buy commodities at Merrill Lynch. My guess is many analysts and even executives are too young to know how profitable a hot commodities market can be. They will soon.
Jim Rogers

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

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

Whereas my producer literally worked on this thing for 10 years and because I gave that presenter credit to David Lynch, she to this day never gets credit. It really kills me.
Terry Zwigoff

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.
Sting

You have to nail the right tone because sometimes when you just see his films cold, you're not quite sure. It's the same in - I'm trying to think of other directors with a similar sense - David Lynch's films, Tim's films, some of Cronenberg's stuff.
Danny Elfman

David Lynch and I almost made a movie together in the late '80s. We had lots of dinners and lunches. He's a very cool, hip guy. This film, let's face it, is like an homage to him, I would imagine he'd find it funny.
Martin Short

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.
Robyn Hitchcock

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

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
Laura Dern

I grew up in Colorado - went back there, tried to heal myself and grow and learn, then got a call that David Lynch wanted me to fly back to Seattle so he could meet me for Twin Peaks.
Sheryl Lee

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.
Kyle MacLachlan

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.
Jacques Rivette

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

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
Jack Nance

Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.
Ida B. Wells

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

No I didn't audition, I didn't even know David Lynch till the week before I started the film.
Richard Farnsworth

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

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

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Lynch Translations

lynch in French is lyncher
lynch in German is lynchen
lynch in Italian is linciare
lynch in Norwegian is lynsje
lynch in Spanish is linchar
lynch in Swedish is lyncha

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