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“There's a place for McCanns jokes, it's probably here. It's probably not on Dictionary Corner on Countdown. "And as we go into the break, we'd like to remind you that MADDIE is an anagram of I'M DEAD.”
Frankie Boyle (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful – because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.”
Niall Ferguson (born 1964) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The NS Interview: Niall Ferguson", New Statesman (July 23, 2010).
“You could kill me right now and I will be permanently dead, and I would willing do that if would end world hunger and poverty. That's a sacrifice! Saying I'm gonna let some people beat me and torture me and kill me, and a day and a half I'm gonna rise up and become what I was before, (...) That's not a sacrifice, that's a bad weekend!”
Matt Dillahunty (born 1969) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Episode 24.04 (January 26, 2020) from The Atheist Experience (Link is unavailable on YouTube)
“I don't see television the way most people do. I see it as a destroyer of concentration rather than of language. There's dead language everywhere. We're cut off from the truth of our tongues. (1980)”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think people have writer's block because they don't really write things down. Their minds are too linear. You have blocks when either you have nothing to write about or you are just going dead ahead. If you just write, if you realize what your mind is and that it's always working, you're always wondering, you're always curious, you're always thinking about things. (1980)”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tiglathpileser was a human, it’s rumored. And Caligula. So were a whole host of twentieth-century tyrants. So presumably were the brain-dead idiots who turned the Earth into a treeless detention camp. Being human, I’m afraid, doesn’t automatically confer demigod status on anyone.”
Michael Bishop (1945–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The cause of extinction is usually a delayed reaction to habitat loss. ...H. sapiens might ...already be a dead species walking.”
“I like being described as "Sylvia Plath with a sense of humour." But I wouldn’t marry Ted Hughes. He’s dead for one thing.”
Carole Morin wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today's banalities apparently gain in profundity if one states that the wisdom of the past, for all its virtues, belongs to the past. The arrogance of those who come later preens itself with the notion that the past is dead and gone. … The modern mind can no longer think thought, only can locate it in time and space. The activity of thinking decays to the passivity of classifying.”
Russell Jacoby (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In shapeless clumps the ferns are brown and dead Among the fir-trees dusk is swiftly born: The maples will be desolate by morn The last word of the summer has been said”
Francis Joseph Sherman (1871–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She stopped dead; and the look in her eyes showed plainly she’d just received the import of a crude lesson in economics.”
Keith Roberts (1935–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Presentism implies not only a shift toward contemporary material (older material is denounced polemically as tied to dead authors), but an implicit structuring of time as always only a present, without a recollection of its past, without an aspiration to a future.”
Russell Berman (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All this was long ago. Nearly two-thirds of my classmates are dead, and not one of us is left on active duty. But there might be one if a close friend of mine received his justice. I refer, and will refer again, to Husband E. Kimmel.”
William Halsey Jr. (1882–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Little by little it became evident that those who used great gifts, and even genius, to establish the truth of the after life, or to seek contact with their beloved dead, suffered from a strange blindness, and obtuseness of the spirit.”
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?”
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My old cat is dead, Who would butt me with his head.”
Hal Summers (1911–2005) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Old Cat", as given in The Nation's Favourite Twentieth Century Poems, pub. BBC, 1999
“Today, Keynesian theorizing does not inspire whispers and giggles from the audience. There are many economists under the age of forty who do not take offense when their work is called ‘Keynesian’, and I count myself as one of them. If Keynesian economics was dead in 1980, then today it has been reincarnated.”
Greg Mankiw (born 1958) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: N. Gregory Mankiw, "The reincarnation of Keynesian economics", European Economic Review (1992).
“Eric Schmidt, former head of Google, argued that, you know, privacy is dead, that culture's changed, that we don't care about this anymore, that it's not right.”
Edward Snowden (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The challenge of Christian critics impelled me to make a study of Hinduism and find out what is living and what is dead in it. My pride as a Hindu, roused by the enterprise and eloquence of Swami Vivekananda, was deeply hurt by the treatment accorded to Hinduism in missionary institutions.”
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Donald Mackenzie Brown The Nationalist Movement: Indian Political Thought from Ranade to Bhave, University of California Press, 1970, p.153.
“Faith seems to me wholly lost, and hope dead; for it seems to me that I have and hold in the certainty that which I believed and hoped at other times. I no longer see union, for I know nothing more and can see nothing more than him alone without me. I do not know where the I is, nor do I seek it, nor do I wish to know or be cognizant of it.”
Catherine of Genoa (1447–1510) said by 1510 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Among other things, we are supposed to spot the toes of clay splaying out from under the pearl-gray spats, or the cloven hoof encased in the jackboot, before anyone else. Cynicism also is the touchstone of a reporter's alchemy through which he hopes to discover that nonexistent load called "objectivity." For as a set of philosophers, the only true objective reporter is the dead one.”
Bill Downs (1914–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She didn't want to touch the baby. Didn't want to know if she was dead. But still she reached down, her arms underneath that small body, and pulled it up against her. The body was burning with fever. But alive. Alive!”
Patricia Reilly Giff (1935–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This fellow,” he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, “will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.”
Tad Williams (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are three kinds of people—the living, the dead, and those at sea.”
Tad Williams (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I couldn’t write those first stories about them until they were all dead. That’s when I began. (It was an unusual family.) Well, I’d paraphrase Tolstoy: All families are. All people too, probably; all places. That’s in part what sends me to writing stories—to balance out the usual and the unusual in the life I see.”
Hortense Calisher (1911–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“American critics and scholars don’t emendate writers who are women—until we’re well dead. Generally speaking, the pejorative for a woman who writes complexly is “obscure.” A man who is “obscure” however, may well be “profound” and merit interpretation.”
Hortense Calisher (1911–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you look at nations today like England, in which great revivals occurred generations ago, there's very little vestige of Christianity left in public life. The Church, by and large, is dead, with only pockets of small Bible-believing churches struggling to make an impact on what's now a very pagan culture.”
“The bottom line is when Senator Inhofe says global warming is a hoax, he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of .”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Past events are not dead but constantly making their claims on the present, modifying it even as they themselves are modified in the maw of subsequent events and in the memory which is part of the shaping of imagination.”
Vernon Scannell (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He shakes his dead rattle Spittle on his bib And I don't do the dishes I throw them in the crib”
Courtney Love (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're turning into a bunch of self-centered walking dead trash… and we're such zombies! We're such self-centered crap that we don't even notice Hell itself rising up against us.”
Alex Jones (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: we don't even notice hell itself rising up against us", The Alex Jones Show, January 28, 2017.
“Jim Crow is dead. But his sophisticated, college-educated, urbane first cousin J. Crow, Esquire, is alive and kicking.”
Yolanda King (1955–2007) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement during speech kicking off Black History Month (02 February 1986)
“You see, maybe all these feelings come about because one side wants to liberate itself with arms. But in my opinion, it is the good that prevails. You may live to see the day when good prevails — it will be after I am dead. But the time will come when my weapons will be no more used or necessary.”
Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is my life, I thought, these are the people among whom I have spent it, prostitutes, tattooed boys with dead eyes, and horny cops.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While his father had railed against the church, to Sarmiento, the Christian sky-king, the virgin impregnated by the air, and the man who came back from the dead were stories so manifestly absurd they did not merit much more than a raised eyebrow and a shrug at human credulity.”
Michael Nava (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Boy, when I'm dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.”
Scott Joplin (1867–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era (1996), by Edward A. Berlin, p. 3
“My dad, he didn’t even have the eyes to see me after all of his tall, blue-eyed sons were dead. He started bellowing from the hilltop to hilltop like a madman, saying that God had forsaken him, and he had nothing more to live for, because all his sons were gone!” Tears streamed down my dad’s face. “I was about nine or ten, the same ag”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Along the illimitable shade Darkling and lone their way they made, Through the vast kingdom of the dead, An empty void, though tenanted: So travellers in a forest move With but the uncertain moon above, Beneath her niggard light.”
John Conington (1825–1869) said by 1869 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.”
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Think of tonight as having a real purpose. Yes, it is dining with the dead in order to be at one with our ancestors, but at the same time, a good scoff in shared company provides solace for the unhappy, it anneals the internal stress of bereavement, it helps the living along the path of their recovery from grief.” “That’s a useful motto for a caterer!”
Lindsey Davis (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whereas elsewhere in Europe, no educated man would be caught dead speaking a vernacular, the Irish thought that all language was game—and too much fun to be deprived of any part of it. They were still too childlike and playful to find any value in snobbery.”
Thomas Cahill (1940–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, the historian's principal task should be to raise the dead to life.”
Thomas Cahill (1940–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be without music was, for the ancient Greeks, to be already dead... Ancient Greece was a culture of song.”
Thomas Cahill (1940–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While Ugarit is revolutionizing the problem of Old Testament origins, the Dead Sea scrolls are doing the same for the New Testament. How fortunate is this generation to live at a time when the sources of our culture—sacred and profane—are illuminated in a brighter light of history than our forefathers imagined possible!”
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Zeus' son Sarpedon meets his fate, Zeus expresses grief for his dead son by causing blood to rain (Iliad 16: 459-461). In Egypt, the function of rain is replaced by the Nile which fructifies the soil. Accordingly, the Biblical Plague of Blood (Exodus 7: 19-25) is the Egyptian equivalent of the bloody rainfall in the Iliad.”
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The older cultures did not develop the concept of canonical writings. There is no Bible in Egypt or Mesopotamia. Neither country had a collection of sacred writings that excluded other writings from comparable status. ...there was never an official "Book of the Dead" in Egypt.”
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the biggest risk of my life. If this didn’t work, I was dead.”
Aliko Dangote (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we copy, the thing never looks right [and] the same occurs with regard to those buildings which do not profess to be copies; both they and the copies want spirit. They are dead bodies... We are at our wits.”
William Burges (1827–1881) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: William Burges "Art and Religion", in: The Church and the World: Essays on Questions of the Day, Orby Shipley ed., London, 1868, pp. 574-98; As cited in: John Pemble. Venice rediscovered. Clarendon Press, 16 mrt. 1995. …
“When we are no longer young we are already dead”
Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Brâncuși in: Rene Dubot So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events. 1998, p. 112
“When we’re talking both to Wikipedians and people outside of Wikipedia, we say, 'Look, if we want to include all of these other narratives besides the typical narrative that we usually tell of dead white men, we’ve gotta get it in there now.'”
Adrianne Wadewitz (1977–2014) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wholf, Tracy (May 18, 2014). "'Wikipedian' editor took on website’s gender gap". PBS NewsHour (PBS). Retrieved May 19, 2014.