Flannery O'Connor 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 -
In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.
Edgar Wright
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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 -
The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
Kage Baker -
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 -
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 -
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
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig -
When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.
Yoko Ono -
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
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Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience -
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
Hermann Hesse -
The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions
Georgy Zhukov -
The dead don't bother with particulars.
Flannery O'Connor