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 -
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
Gail Carson Levine -
Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
Yeardley Smith
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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 -
If some people think, "Why am I eating a dead bird soaked in poop?" I think if some people get disgusted by that, it's all to the good. Their coronary arteries will be healthier.
Neal Barnard
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And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.
Pier Paolo Pasolini -
The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia -
I never believe anything that a lawyer says when he has a wig on his head and a fee in his hand. I prepare myself beforehand to regard it all as mere words, supplied at so much the thousand. I know he'll say whatever he thinks most likely to forward his own views.
Anthony Trollope -
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms We have imagined for the mighty dead.
Adam Nicolson