Quotes with dead-letter

Quotes 381 till 400 of 426.

  • Alexander Downer Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.
    Alexander Downer
    Australian politician and diplomat (1951 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Well, to tell you the straight honest truth, it was like a Grateful Dead cover band. I didn't feel - and nothing against the guys - I didn't feel that they were opening up like they should. I'll tell you what, with guitar players, Steven has what I like in guitar players.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Irv Kupcinet What can you say about a society that says that god is dead and Elvis is alive?
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  • Raymond Chandler What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bruce Jackson What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Assata Shakur When Black people seriously organize and take up arms to fight for our liberation, there will be a lot of white people who will drop dead from no other reason than their own guilt and fear.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 80
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Hillaire Belloc When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.
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  • Hilaire Belloc When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Aaron Carter When I was 6 years old, I was in a rock band that was horrible called 'Dead End.' The name kind of described us. People liked us; we would go and perform at coffee houses and stuff.
    Aaron Carter
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor (1987 - )
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  • Freddie Mercury When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
    Freddie Mercury
    British singer, songwriter and record producer (1946 - 1991)
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  • Edith Wharton When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich When the Somalians were merely another hungry third world people, we sent them guns. Now that they are falling down dead from starvation, we send them troops. Some may see in this a tidy metaphor for the entire relationship between north and south. But it would make a whole lot more sense nutritionally - as well as providing infinitely more vivid viewing - if the Somalians could be persuaded to eat the troops.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Thomas Wilson When we attend a funeral, we are apt to comfort ourselves with the happy difference there is betwixt us and our dead friend.
    Maxims (1781)
    Thomas Wilson
    English bishop and writer (1663 - 1755)
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  • Boyle Roche While I write this letter, I have a pistol in one hand and a sword in the other.
    Boyle Roche
    Irish politician
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  • Stephen Hawking Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Lord George Byron Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • George Eliot With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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