Adam Nicolson Quotes
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings -
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 a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
V. S. Naipaul -
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
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
Barbara Demick -
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
Harry Anderson -
If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
Randy Newman -
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig -
You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney -
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Gail Carson Levine
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith -
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 -
There's nothing deader than a dead love.
Leona Helmsley -
Go and ask an undertaker or the guy who operates the crematorium what it takes to get rid of a dead body. It takes one liter of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million?
Hutton Gibson -
I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
Allen Tate -
I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell
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It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
Colleen McCullough -
Those who live in memories are never really dead.
Kate Morton -
I'm feeling a lot of love right now. But I'm sorry. I've got a muzzle on me. I'm a rookie.
Ellis Hobbs -
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Adam Nicolson