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 -
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 -
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
Colleen McCullough
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The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes -
Today is a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan. Like karate and karaoke. Manga and anime. And, of course, emojis.
Barack Obama -
Russia has done some serious damage to its otherwise-good reputation for security of supply. Europe is going to have to take a hard look at their exposure and whether there's a way to fix that.
William Ramsay -
Doing this well requires a deep knowledge of the data mixed with a goodly dose of economic theory and economic judgment, ... Greenspan is, of course, a master.
Ben Bernanke -
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Adam Nicolson