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“resurrection ferns that wait for a rain like dead things and then open up new and green and beautiful like they are doing right now out on the hurricane felled trees, like they didn’t know it was catastrophe that gave them life. Maybe, I think, I am like those ferns. Ama’s like the rain. (Chapter 5, p101)”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Street boy, you've been out too long. Street boy, ain't you got enough sense to go home? Street boy, you're gonna end up alone. You need some love and understanding, not that dead end life you're planning, street boy.”
Sixto Rodriguez (1942–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sugar Man, won't you hurry 'cause I'm tired of these scenes. For a blue coin, won't you bring back all those colors to my dreams? Silver magic ships, you carry jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane. Sugar Man met a false friend on a lonely dusty road. Lost my heart. When I found it it had turned to dead black coal.”
Sixto Rodriguez (1942–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Boris Johnson, surrounded by the usual brain-dead ERG headbangers and DUP tub thumpers, Boris Johnson is threatening Rishi Sunak because Rishi Sunak is minded to abide by the terms of the treaty that Boris Johnson signed.”
James O'Brien (broadcaster) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James O'Brien brands Boris Johnson 'a bare faced liar' after NI protocol remarks", Leading Britain's Conversation (22 February 2019)
“It's weird when someone close to you is arrested. It's as if they’ve been deleted: there’s a stream of text messages as normal, and then there isn't. You think, at first: oh, he hasn’t got reception. Then you think: well, he can't still not have reception. Hertfordshire isn't Lapland. Where is he? For an hour I thought Ben had had a car accident and was unconscious in hospital or dead.”
Camilla Long (born 1978) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Police can’t spot a rapist in their ranks, but they’ll bang up my partner for taking a snap" The Sunday Times (22 January 2023)
“I have seen more demonstrations and strikes in my first two years. I don't think it can get worse. It is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn't fear the knife because it is dead already.”
John Mahama (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that cricket reference is nonsense. The national game of Great Britain is Association Football. Cricket was nearly dead before the war. It died of the disease of elaboration, whereby a simple two hours' game was extended to a three-days' game.”
Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865–1922) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to F. W. Wile (1918), quoted in Reginald Pound and Geoffrey Harmsworth, Northcliffe (1959), p. 662
“I then burnt the city and put everything to sword, and for days continuously the people shed blood. Wherever they were found and caught, no life was spared to any Musalman, and their mosques were filled up and set on fire. We counted 6,000 dead bodies. It was, my Lord, a great deed, well fought and well finished.”
Afonso de Albuquerque (1453–1515) first seen 1509 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese Governor of Goa (1509-1515), describing the take-over of the port-city to King of Portugal Rao, R.P., Portuguese Rule In Goa, Asia Publishing House, 1963. 30 quoted from Jain, M. (edito…
“Lifelong learning must not be confined to the classroom or to any age in life as life is dynamic; and the day you stop learning, you become intellectually dead and cease to be relevant to your society.”
Nana Aba Appiah Amfo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everything on Russian state TV is such a terrible hypocrisy, like they don't remember that Russia has started this invasion, and of course they don't say anything about dead children. Maybe they don't care, I don't know.”
Ekaterina Kotrikadze (born 1984) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: VIDEO: Russia's Info War", ABC Net, 23 February 2023
“[H]eavy load of his far-from-dead past, which was beginning to seem like an albatross around my neck.”
Françoise Gilot (1921–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There was one occasion when John Cleese and myself actually felt guilty about laughing at something we were writing, because it was in incredibly bad taste. So bad was the taste that we just couldn't help laughing at it. It concerned a gentleman walking into … an undertaker's premises with his dead mother in a sack. And from there it got worse.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview (alongside Terry Gilliam) with David Letterman on Late Night with David Letterman, 24 June 1982 (season 1, episode 80).
“Have I told you about Christ?” “Ghost-born-man-walking-on-water-telling-stories-dead-on-tree. Yes. You’ve told me about him. Show me more feathers.”
Robert Holdstock (1948–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I left friends and colleagues behind, not sure whether they were going to be OK. I didn’t want to leave, I didn’t believe what I was seeing. I didn’t ever think that I would see dead people in the streets, or face threats of physical violence. It was a very, very dark time.”
Patricia Kingori wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without the wall through Berlin there could have been a nuclear war with thousands or millions of dead.”
Erich Honecker (1912–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Honecker Says Berlin Wall Prevented Nuclear Conflict" in Deseret News (3 December 1992)
“Without love, we’re dead.”
“One of the most memorable twelfth-century observations about the crusade was how comfortable the soldiers felt around corpses. Two writers say, essentially, the people naturally feel horror at the dead, but the crusaders learned to walk among them and even sleep beside them. How did that happen? How did a basic human impulse, that crosses the medieval-modern divide, become lost?”
Jay Rubenstein (born 1967) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (2014)
“Any measurement, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide... We're losing all of the ice of the world... The oceans, the plankton, the corals, the fish, , oceanic dead zones and deoxygenation... and , the amount of soil, the fertility of the soil, the moisture of the soil, and permafrost is releasing tons of methane... unstoppable.”
Michael Dowd (1958–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In short, they were like the complacent everywhere: in that they were already dead, and did not yet happen to know it…”
Adam-Troy Castro (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know what murder investigators call the ex-lover who says the dead woman slept around?” “I think I can guess.” “The most likely suspect.”
Adam-Troy Castro (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us rest our dead with dignity and in peace while we await the resurrection, waiting to be able to embrace each other again in eternal life.”
Corrado Lorefice (born 1962) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘No more coffins piled up’: Palermo archbishop laments lack of burial space (3 November 2021) Catholic News Agency
“The personal and the impersonal coincide because life itself impels them. Killing humanity kills language. Once the language is dead, the human self disappears.”
Clotilde Betances Jaeger (1890–1970) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: El Idioma Vive en MÍ" Artes y Letras [Nueva York], año II, núm 17. Noviembre de 1934, p. 4. Anthologized in “El feminismo no es nuevo”: Las crónicas de Clotilde Betances Jaeger edited by María Teresa Vera-Rojas (2020)
“! The world's oldest and hardest writing, older by far than any alphabet, written by long-dead Sumerians and Babylonians over more than three thousand years, and as extinct by the time of the Romans as any dinosaur. What a challenge! What an adventure!”
Irving Finkel (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In 2014, my first play BOI BOI IS DEAD won the Channel 4 Playwrights Scheme and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.”
Zodwa Nyoni (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“they laughed a little and were very friendly together, the three of them, Anna, Emanuele and Giustino; and they were pleased to be together, the three of them, thinking of all those who were dead, and of the long war and the sorrow and noise and confusion, and of the long, difficult life which they saw in front of them now, full of all the things they did not know how to do.”
Natalia Ginzburg (1916–1991) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tutti i nostri ieri (1952). All Our Yesterdays, transl. Angus Davidson (1985)
“In 1955, it was not fashionable to believe in God. To the philosophical avant garde, God was dead. Science laughed at the superstitious beliefs of the ignorant; many of the college-educated turned away from religion. Those who still went to church or synagogue did so more to maintain a tradition than from a sincerely felt need for intercourse with the divine. (Chapter Nineteen)”
Nina Graboi (1918–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only the dead have seen the end of the world.”
Omoyemi Akerele (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He has few dogmas, but he brings to the faithful very high teachings; he admits the future life, he promises the coming, at the end of the world and when the dead will rise again, of a Savior, he announcing the prize that will touch the good, and the penalty of the wicked.”
Italo Pizzi (1849–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Italian, will soon be the most beautiful of the dead languages.”
Roberto Vecchioni (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[cit. St. Augustine] The dead are not absent, they are invisible. They keep their eyes full of light, ours full of tears. (page 122)”
Andrea Gallo (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For decades, biology has been dominated by information—the power of genes. ...[Y]et there is no difference in the information content of a living protozoon and one that died ...The difference between alive and dead lies in energy flow ...the ability of cells to continually regenerate themselves from simpler building blocks.”
“No, I never saw dead bodies.”
Beatrice Munyenyezi (born 1970) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beatrice Munyenyezi said, (KT press, Dec 23, 2017)
“And you think she's dead? | No. The day I mourned for her, | I did not distinguish funereal hanging drapes | nor did I see a coffin before his door. From”
Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907) said by 1907 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The thought of being thirty exhausts me. I have a whole dead life behind me. In front of me is an opaque existence in which I foresee nothing. I feel old, and sad like an old man. (May 29, C.E.1894; Vergani, p. 76)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your page on autumn must give you the same pleasure as walking on dead leaves. (March 10, C.E.1906; Vergani, p. 236)”
Jules Renard (1864–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since I was the first born in my family and my father was dead, I had to wake up and look for ways to move forward. I never thought about the fact that I was just a child, but I focused on what I could do. I wanted to be independent and live on my hard earnings.”
Anita Pendo (born 1986) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am more disciplined than most people imagine - Anita Pendo The NewTimes,October 24, 2013.
“I’ll be a dead man walking if I don't live in my true form.”
Ijeoma Grace Agu wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love the dead transmitted to poetic memory, not unburied corpses.”
Guido Piovene (1907–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing should be kept at the back of our mind; if they don’t talk about you, you’ll never prosper in life. Who is talking about the dead now? They are talking about you because you are still relevant. Even if they are saying something bad about you, you should thank God for being alive for them to talk about you.”
Ronke Oshodi Oke (born 1974) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nobody can bully me online –Ronke Oshodi-Oke Punch (Nigeria), 30 November 2019.
“I believe I’m not going to stop learning until I’m brain dead.”
Oluwatoyin Asojo (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By far, academia! One word: students. I think hanging around with people that still have that passion for learning keeps me excited to learn new things. I believe I’m not going to stop learning until I’m brain dead, so I like being around people that have that zest for life and that passion for science and that optimism. They’re not jaded.”
Oluwatoyin Asojo (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being alive is the most dangerous thing in the world. Anything can happen at any time. It's safer to be dead.”
Kopano Matlwa (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love that friendship. I love many characters in The Walking Dead but Carol’s character is one of the strongest feminine characters in the history of TV. We discover a woman completely traumatized by her husband in the first season. Just crying the whole time. And we see her in Season 11 just so strong.”
Anne Charrier (born 1974) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One of the strongest feminine characters" - The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon star Anne Charrier loves Carol and Daryl's bond (Exclusive)", SK Pop (October 9, 2023)
“We were holding onto hope, thinking it will bounce back but it seems far-fetched, truth be told the industry is dead. I was having a conversation with one of my colleagues about the industry but in conclusion, we realized there is absolutely nothing happening towards reviving the industry. it is pretty worrying.”
Beverly Afaglo (1983–2026) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reymond Awusei Johnson, The movie industry is really dead - Beverly Afaglo, Pulse, August 6, 2023.
“Guilt, Ameline discovered, was a terrible, unruly think, like toothache - dull nagging, persistent, never far from attention. Just when you got used to its rumbling, ruminating presence, it would lash out, stike you down, stio you dead in your tracks. The worst thing was, it was entirely unpredictable.”
Lesley Lokko (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think what happened to people like me who grew up in the 80s and 90s is that slasher movies, Stephen King and Twin Peaks all got mixed with our reality, which was already full of the language of horror: the disappeared, the children of the dead, children of the lost generation…”
Mariana Enríquez (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“language is both an entryway and a dead end.”
Michael Bronski (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn’t want to make those movies before I made those movies. Those movies are ridiculous. They’re not universal. They’re an escape. That one’s a trap as well. Because it can become 15 for them, none for you. You have no original ideas, and you’re dead inside. So, it’s a fine dance. My ‘one for them,’ I’ve done it.”
Jacob Elordi (born 1997) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jacob Elordi admits he felt ‘dead inside’ whilst filming the ‘ridiculous’ Kissing Booth films". The Tab. November 14, 2023.
“[W]e used to consider that no matter how many evidences in favor of your model, [if] you have... one evidence against you, and you're dead.”
John Dobson (amateur astronomer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m always quite fond of Canadian greats. I was probably too young when I got onboard the Cronenberg train, but I remember watching the Dead Ringers film for the first time. I think I knew I was a bit strange when I watched The Fly, but that solidified it for me because I loved it.”
Britne Oldford (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source