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“Yeah, well, you clearly also couldn't be bothered to call me and tell me you were shacking up with some dyed-blond wanna-be goth you probably met at Pandemonium. After I spent the past three days wondering if you were dead." "I was not shacking up," Clary said, glad of the darkness as the blood rushed to her face. "And my hair is naturally blond," said Jace. "Just for the record.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I just... I don't know how I got here." "I could probably retrace our steps. Straight through the faerie corridor, left at the decimated village, right at the blasted plain of the damned, sharp U-turn at the heap of dead demon--”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never again I would know her slow kisses which are hardly felt. Never again the ringing mourning bells, songs of the dead that we loved.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom of mind is the real freedom. A person whose mind is not free though he may not be in chains, is a slave, not a free man. One whose mind is not free, though he may not be in prison, is a prisoner and not a free man. One whose mind is not free though alive, is no better than dead. Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.”
B. R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's been an accident!" they said, "Your servant's cut in half; he's dead." "Indeed!" said Mr Jones, "and please Give me the half that's got my keys.”
Harry Graham (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mourn the dead by pitying the living.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How does it feel to have just changed the course of history?” “I don’t know what you mean,” said the navigator. “To my way of thinking, by the time history happens I’m going to be dead.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A rose to the living is more Than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.”
Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Rose to the Living, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”
Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shrine or Factory?" (1918); translation from Mikhail Anikst et al. (eds.) Soviet Commercial Design of the Twenties (New York: Abbeville Press, 1987) p. 15
“I like Americans now. They're dead nice. More polite. They aren't like the English, 'Ey Mac, comin' for a pint round the corner, yer twat?' I hate all that stuff, all that wanting you to be like you were in 1982. I've made up me mind that where I'm gonna regain the lost ground is over here in America.”
Ian McCulloch (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not want to heap coals of fire on anyone's head, but I would like to advise those who keep the living thought of the dead hidden away in cardboard boxes, to pass on as quickly as possibly such explosive material, whose only legitimate heir is the whole world, that is to say, my neighbor.”
Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Man and His Movements (Times Press, 1964)
“All [atheists] have seen is the inside of a dead Catholic church or the hypocrisy of the money-hungry 'prosperity gospel' version of Christianity we find all over the airwaves and all across bookstore shelves today.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The legends are legends. Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher will not indicate a favoring wind, or avert the thunderbolt. Nor, by its nesting, still the waters, with the new year, for seven days. It is true, it does nest with the opening year, but not on the waters.”
Charles Olson (1910–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[she] gave me a puzzled frown like she thought offhand i was dead but the media's so unreliable these days.”
Daniel Handler (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He's been misled and he's been afraid. He's been hit in the head and left for dead. He's been abused and he's been accused and he's been refused a piece of bread. On and on he goes down this road getting pushed around and lost and around and given until sundown to get out of town, and yet this is basically a love song. He's had the shit kicked out of him, and guess what? It's love.”
Daniel Handler (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anon Britannia droops the pensive head, While round increase the rising hills of dead. Ah! cruel blindness to Columbia's state! Lament thy thirst of boundless power too late. Proceed, great chief, with virtue on thy side,”
Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Harry Dresden: Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.”
Jim Butcher (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No more stress, now I'm straight Now I get it, now I take time to think Before I make mistakes just for my family's sake part of me left yesterday The heart of me is strong today No regrets I'm blessed to say that old me dead and gone away”
“New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.”
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hothouse by the East River (London: Macmillan, 1973) p. 12
“An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.”
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why is not the original deposited in some public library, instead of exhibiting attestations of its existence? Suppose there were a question in a court of justice, whether a man be dead or alive. You aver he is alive, and you bring fifty witnesses to swear it. I answer, 'Why do you not produce the man?'”
James Macpherson (1736–1796) first seen 1785 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785), p. 487.
“The facade of the Conquest, severe yet jocund, with one foot in the dead Old World and the other in the New.”
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012) first seen 1962 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
“I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.”
“I often sketched by moonlight {in the 1890's] - cows resting or standing immovable in flat Dutch meadows, or houses with dead, blank windows. I never painted these things romantically, but from the very beginning I was always a realist.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Later Quote of Mondrian, about his 1890's; taken from 'Mondrian, Essays' ('Plastic art and pure plastic art', 1937 and his other essays, (1941-1943) by Piet Mondrian; Wittenborn-Schultz Inc., New York, 1945, p. 10; as c…
“I wanted to tell you that in about 1883 there occurred a kind of break in my work. I had got to the end of 'Impressionism', and I had come to the conclusion that I didn't either how to paint or how to draw. In short, I had come to a dead end.”
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Christ's voice sounds now for each of us in loving invitation; and dead in sin and hardness of heart though we be, we can listen and live. Christ Himself, my brother, sows the seed now. Do you take care that it falls not on, but in, your souls.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Afterward she opened the matter more plainly to M. Rise and Mistres Clarentius (if it be true that they tolde me, whiche hearde it of M. Rise himselfe) who then being most familiar with her, & most bold about her, tolde her that they feared she took thought for king Philips departing from her. Not that onely (sayde she) but when I am dead & opened, you shall find Calice lying in my hart.”
John Foxe (1516–1587) said by 1587 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're in this strange age where we can't say ‘I love you,’ at least not sincerely. … It's something where, if you simplify it, the whole point of trying to capture it would sort of make it dead. The fragmented thing can create a situation where the holes between the pieces of the puzzle can be filled with meaning, and thereby you get a greater sense of complexity or feeling.”
Christoffer Boe (born 1974) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Fade to Black: Christoffer Boe, interview with Darroch Greer, Millimeter (September 1, 2004)
“Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.”
Arthur Leonard Schawlow (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As ravens rejoice over carrion, so infernal spirits exult over the soul that is dead in sin.”
Christian Scriver (1629–1693) said by 1693 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Talk about celestial bodies, And your angels on the wing. She wasn't much good at stickin' around--but That girl could sing. She could sing...In the dead of night, She could shine a light On some places that you've never been. In that kind of light, You could lose your sight And believe there was something to win.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the following morning, when the first citizens started walking around, he was found dead. So died the poor and brave Antônio da Silva Marramaque who, at the age of 18, dreamed with the glories of poetry and was now murdered due his great soul and brave moral! He didn't compose any sonnet and, if he did, he composed bad ones. But, by his way, he was a hero and a poet... that God bless him!”
Lima Barreto (1881–1922) said by 1922 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The minister, who would be most like the Master, must go and, like Him, lay the warm, kindly hand on the leper, the diseased, the wretched. He must touch the blind eyes with something from himself. The tears must be in his own eyes over the dead who are to be raised to spiritual life. Jesus is our great exemplar.”
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As preachers we are to promote Christian culture, by bringing the dead branches to the living Vine, that, grafted into it, without a rag of hum1.n righteousness between, the life of Him may enter them; and by keeping them, as far as teaching and example can do it, abiding in Him, that they may bring forth fruit.”
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Direct your arrows at objects without being personal; come near your hearers. Letters dropped into the post-office without address go to the dead-letter office, and are of no use to any body.”
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened? would something always, always have to be apparently dead for the really living to happen? had I had not to know that it was living? Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker? (p159)”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t reread. It nauseates me. When it’s published, it’s like a dead book—I don’t want to hear anything more about it. And, when I read it, I think it’s weird, I think it’s bad, that’s why I don’t read it. I also don’t read the translations that they do of my books, in order not to get annoyed.”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Avant-garde art has become habitual, a dead letter with little spiritual consequence, however materially refined.”
Donald Kuspit (born 1935) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reconsidering the Spiritual in Art", Blackbird (2003).
“A man’s emotions are what define him, and control is the hallmark of true strength. To lack feeling is to be dead, but to act on every feeling is to be a child.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The difference between a successful thief and a dead thief is knowing when to escape with your takings.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When did you get so peppy?” she shouted. “Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn’t.” “Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while,” she snapped. “If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Falsehoods serve nobody, Kadash,” Dalinar said, pulling back. “If the Almighty is dead, then pretending otherwise is pure stupidity. We need real hope, not faith in lies.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I…don’t feel like I’ve won.…” “Welcome to war, Evi,” Dalinar said, heading toward the door. “There are no unequivocal wins. Just victories that leave fewer of your friends dead than others.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended…The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.”
Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849) first seen 1814 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Patronage (1814), ch. 20; Tales and Novels, vol. 14, p. 245.
“Somebody said that Reason was dead. Reason said: No, I think not so.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were other fellow-sufferers, lower-case ones: the thousands who were either killed, maimed or bereaved by the devotees of the Irish Republic in Mr Sands's organization, the Provisional IRA. Those other dead, however, being the wrong kind, are implicitly excluded from what is seen as a celestial tête-à-tête.”
Conor Cruise O'Brien (1917–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is in the present state of physics impossible to conceive of a physically dead world, that is to say, a world without any available source of energy.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in National Geographic Vol. CX (July-December 1956), p. 487
“Think. You have had your dealings with our bureaucracy. It is impossible not to, especially if one is a foreigner. Believe me, when we set our minds to it we can tangle, obstruct, and bring to a dead halt a herd of stampeding elephants.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source