Quotes with dead-letter

Quotes 181 till 200 of 426.

  • David Fasold Intellectual brilliance is no guaranty against being dead wrong.
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Tom Lehrer It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
    Tom Lehrer
    American musician, satirist, and mathematician (1928 - )
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  • Greil Marcus It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
    Virginibus Puerisque
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • A. N. Wilson It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Pope Gregory VII It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Harry S. Truman It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Dame Rose Macaulay It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
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  • Anna Akhmatova It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
    Anna Akhmatova
    Russian poet (1889 - 1966)
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  • Buddy Wakefield It was not my intention to make such a production of the emptiness between us, playing tuba on the tombstone of a soprano to try to keep some dead singer's perspective alive. It's just that I could have swore you had sung me a love song back there; and that you meant it.
    Poetry Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism consists largely in saying ''Lord James is dead'' to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special interests.
    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
    American journalist
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  • Oscar Wilde Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Bob Dylan Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
    Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Latta Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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