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 -
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 -
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
Salman Rushdie -
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker -
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 -
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
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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 -
I feel able to steal from Emily Dickinson because she's both wonderful and dead.
Mal Peet -
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney -
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
Samuel Butler -
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 -
My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.
Tamara Ecclestone
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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
R. C. Sproul -
It's dead - for the time being. This issue goes in cycles.
Alan Young -
I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell -
Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.
Oscar Wilde -
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger -
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.
Clarence Day
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The planetary etheric body is a whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and the patient are integral, intrinsic parts.
Alice Bailey -
A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
Dante Alighieri -
A medium is a bridge between two minds.
Scott McCloud -
Being a guy with tattoos, 38-years-old and thought of as a punk rocker, to end up on Nickelodeon is kind of weird.
Steve Harwell -
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