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“The dead leaves their rich mosaics Of olive and gold and brown Had laid on the rain-wet pavements, Through all the embowered town.”
Samuel Longfellow (1819–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: November; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 562.
“Well lad, this is what you have chosen. Are you pleased with yourself?" “I am alive," said Bane. “And eight men are dead," said Landis. “Eight souls cast out of the world. More mothers to grieve, more children to know sorrow. Is this a life you want for yourself?” “No it is not," Bane told him. “But we do what we must.” “Not true! We do what we choose. And we face the consequences.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A lovers' spat," he said. "You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do I have to dig? Do I have to prod? Reach into your chest And pull your feelings out? Are you dancing dead? Or maybe walking toast? If you feel anything Be brave Come forth Let it show. Tell me what d'you think of life? Tell me do you think at all?”
Happy Rhodes (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now the pitch, and it's lined foul into the seats, down the third base line, 1 ball, 1 strike, and I'll tell you what's going on. The crowd is chanting "U-S-A!" and the reason for that is that there are reports circulating, I'm not sure if they yet been confirmed by the White House, that Osama bin Laden is dead. How that's happened, we don't know, but this crowd now knows it.”
Howie Rose (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not easy to kill a man and walk away from it. Every time you kill, a little piece of you dies. Kill often enough, and though you still may talk and eat and breathe, you're a walking dead man your ownself.”
Ralph Compton (1934–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Buck Fletcher in Showdown at Two-Bit Creek; Cited in: Joseph A. West (2004) Ralph Compton, Showdown at Two-Bit Creek, p. 103
“Mullahinsa, Drummeril, Black Shanco- Wherever I turn I see In the stony grey soil of Monaghan Dead loves that were born for me.”
Patrick Kavanagh (1904–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power of language cannot be avoided. We cannot choose to distance ourselves from it. We can only choose to employ it in one way rather than another.”
Stanley Fish (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.”
Alain de Botton (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My own feeling was that witnessing the explosion of an atomic bomb, and having to examine all the dead animals, had a profound effect on my father.”
Lewis Pugh (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.”
Alberto Manguel (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He put his hand over mine, the one with the dead cigarette crumbled in it, and gave me a wonderful smile. "Easy, child, easy. I’m only teasing you. Don’t think I disapprove for Christ’s sake. Live it up, I say. Don’t say no to life, Gorce, you’re only young once.” We were on last name terms, Keevil and I.”
Elaine Dundy (1921–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.”
James Richardson (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I remember once saying that I'd like to go to university. My father told me: "I would rather see you dead at my feet than have you go to a university." I'm laughing about it now, but at the time I was terribly upset. I didn't even understand what going to university meant.”
Fenella Fielding (1927–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no other realm that is can see beyond itself to which the fool can point. Consciousness in the throes of desire cannot tolerate laughter any more than criticism of laughter can be tolerated in a moment of sexual lust.”
Donald Phillip Verene (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mother (from ) understood perfectly that she had to teach French, not Basque, which is a dead language.”
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1922–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best terrorist, the dead one.”
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1922–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Legalising the Basque flag over my dead body.”
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1922–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve gotten kicked in the face, got my nose broken, I’m constantly chipping teeth and there’s been a lot of very close calls with Hunter [the band’s bassist]. In a recent show, if our movement had’ve been inches different, I might be dead. I almost caught his bass to my head at full velocity. You laugh but it’s really scary.”
Davey Havok (born 1975) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Southern Courier, February 2010
“They say something about being safe in the bunker, and how it's almost fun to hear the explosions when they know the bangs can't hurt them. Suddenly there is the sound of a shot, so loud, so close that we all fall silent. It echoes on through all the rooms. "That was a direct hit," cried Helmut [Goebbels] with no idea how right he is. The Fuhrer is dead now.”
Traudl Junge (1920–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End (2011) by Nicholas Best, p. 185.
“Profit, Empire, Industry. What was a dead lake, a few poisoned rivers, a few slagged hillsides? Priorities, that was what it was about. Priorities and Progress.”
Ian McDonald (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is now a matter of national security, sir." "This is Franz Kafka, is what it is." Tom Hanks looks at chair-rocker, who writes the name down. "He's a Czech writer," Thomas Lull says. "He's been dead a hundred years. I was attempting irony." "Sir, please do not attempt irony. This is a most serious issue.”
Ian McDonald (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As for bravery: dead on the fields are millions who would have feared to wear a hat in inappropriate season, so I judged that brave warriors are dirt cheap as compared with untimid civilians.”
Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I get this door open, you’re dead, Jean!“ “When you get that door open? I look forward to many long years of life, then.”
Scott Lynch (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then in my heart a fear Cried out, "A life — why, beautiful, why dead!" It was a mite that held itself most dear, So small I could have drowned it with a tear.”
Karl Shapiro (1913–2000) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.”
Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal, 29 March 1912; final words, quoted in Scott's Last Expedition (1913) vol.1, ch.20
“For quite a while I did feel like my brain wasn't being used at all. Obviously, when you're just modelling, you do feel a bit almost brain-dead, where you need something to stimulate you mentally and you're not getting it.”
Jodie Marsh (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Windin' your way down on Baker Street, Light in your head and dead on your feet. Well another crazy day, You'll drink the night away And forget about everything. This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul. And it's taking you so long To find out you were wrong, When you thought it had everything.”
Gerry Rafferty (1947–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The war was still on in January 1945. In their dismay at my being shipped off in the dead of winter to who knows where in Russia, everyone wanted to give me something that might be of use, even if it couldn't be help. Because nothing in the world could possible help.”
Herta Müller (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To build a genuinely sustainable economy, we need to recognize and embrace the dynamic nature of the world, and free ourselves from the dead holds of static dogma.”
David Orrell (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see, Ebenezer, charity begs a crucial question. How did the bestower attain the position from which he now exercises his largesse?” My dead colleague cleaned his teeth with one of his many appended keys. “Through imagination and merit? Or through inherited privilege and ruthless exploitation?”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fission bomb was a costly mistress. Consider, your Honors. In 1979 this planet celebrated the International Year of the Child. Of the one hundred and twenty-two million children born that year, one of every ten was dead by 1982, and most died for lack of inexpensive food and vaccines. Yet in 1982 the world spent one trillion dollars on weapons. One trillion dollars!”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And what are you?” “Me? I knew God was dead even before the corpse showed up.”
James K. Morrow (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I poured Franklin another cup of coffee and he looked at me, his big eyes pleading. The deadheads always look like that when we reach this point. They think that Mars is like Alaska in the ’70s, or Antarctica in 2000; a frontier for brave, determined men. But Mars isn’t a frontier. It’s a dead end.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the college conservatives who had almost succeeded in electing John Smith to the Presidency of the United States during the last election. The fact that Smith had been dead for twenty years had not dampened their ardor; quite the contrary, many considered this the candidate’s best quality.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the dead sunlight of a forgotten spring the major leaguers were trim, graceful and effortless. They might have been gods for these seemed true Olympians to a boy who wanted to become a manand who sensed that it was an exalted manly thing to catch a ball with one hand thrust across your body and make a crowd leap to its feet and cheer.”
Roger Kahn (1927–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither alive nor dead; no one lets up, no one wins.”
Dejan Stojanovic (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I strike dead balls alla Pirlo. Each shot bears my name and they're all my children.”
Andrea Pirlo (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything emotional in America becomes a mere show and make-believe. Americans are trained to invest money, are said to take even desperate chances on that, yet never do they invest [in] beauty nor take desperate chances on that. With money they try to buy beauty--after it has died--famishing--with grimace. Beauty is ever dead in America.”
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kyoto is not dead,” May says. “We’ve got a year to convince the prime minister to change his position.”
Elizabeth May (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seven cities claimed blind Homer, dead, Through which blind Homer, living, begged his bread.”
Avram Davidson (1923–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Forcible coercion is not necessarily a violation of the law of love, but I find it impossible to reconcile the intentional slaughter of any human being with the religious principle of reverence for personality, that is, respect for the personality of the dead man. Nor does active goodwill or the principle of mutuality justify the willful taking of a human life.”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.”
Tryon Edwards (1809–1894) said by 1894 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She taught me this above all else: things which don't shift and grow are dead things. They are things the witchery people want. Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth. But it has always been necessary, and more than ever now, it is. Otherwise we won't make it. We won't survive..." (p116)”
Leslie Marmon Silko (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even before I was me, I was God in God; And I can be once again, as soon as I am dead to myself”
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) said by 1677 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of reform has been discredited and came to an ultimate dead end. It was unthinkable that this regime could ever reform itself. There is no process of change that could come from within.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 1960) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Rachel Makabi, 'A Race Against Time', Newsweek International, Sept 4, 2006.
“There's two empty seats right middle - this is supposed to be sold out, where are they? I hope they're dead in a fucking car crash!”
Frankie Boyle (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source