Quotes with dead-ends

Quotes 61 till 80 of 516.

  • Emily Brontë Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Adam Pascal Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!.
    Adam Pascal
    American actor and singer (1970 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Oscar Wilde Art only begins where Imitation ends.
    De Profundis (1905)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Boz Scaggs As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.
    Boz Scaggs
    American singer, songwriter, and guitarist (1944 - )
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  • Lance Morrow As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.
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  • David Byrne As I define it, rock and roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. The attitude, though, is still very much alive - and it still informs other kinds of music.
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  • Allan Bloom As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Stephen Bayley As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
    Stephen Bayley
    British art criticus (1951 - )
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  • Milan Kundera At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Cameron Mackintosh 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
    British theatrical producer and theatre owner (1946 - )
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  • Jim Valvano Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • William Shakespeare Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
    a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
    a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
    a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
    lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aldous Huxley Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Jonathan Franzen Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
    De correcties 324
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • Jeremy Collier Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Sir John Denham Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Born down in a dead man's town;
    The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
    You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
    'Til you spend half your life just covering up.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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