Simon Schama Quotes

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

Simon Schama

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• It is time for dead languages to be quiet.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Quiet

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writer
  • Dead
  • Hostility

• If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dead
  • Now
  • Muslim

• I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Father
  • Dead
  • Very

• The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Dead

• Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Dead
  • Forgotten
  • Audiences

• We treated all of the dead with dignity.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Dead
  • Dignity
  • Treated

• I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Woman
  • Body
  • Dead

• Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Always
  • Name
  • Dead

• I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.

  

  Mal Peet
  • She
  • Feel
  • Dead

• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Up
  • Kids
  • You

• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Doubt
  • Dead

• Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Like
  • Dead
  • Seem

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Hair
  • Dead
  • Movement

• Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Grace

• If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • God
  • Power
  • Place

• It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.

  

  Alan Young
  • Time
  • Dead
  • Issue

• Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

  

  Bernard Lown
  • Acceptance
  • Claim
  • Paradigm

• Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Time
  • Live
  • Movie

• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Opinion
  • Body
  • Gay

• We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.

  

  Simon Schama
  • Dead
  • Cycle
  • Greenery