Quotes with death-like

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  • Benedict Wong Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back.
    Benedict Wong
    English actor (1971 - )
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  • Joseph Cook Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
    Joseph Cook
    6th prime minister of Australia from 1913 to 1914 (1860 - 1947)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Of all the benefits which virtue confers on us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Aeschylus Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Walter Benjamin Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bobby Davro Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland Of course they have, or I wouldn't be sitting here talking to someone like you.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Brad Dourif Of course, I would like to play the guy next door, but nobody's going to hire me for that kind of role.
    Brad Dourif
    American actor (1950 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Billy Collins Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Brea Grant Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht Oh the harsh snarl of guitar strings roaring!
    Heavenly distensions of our throats!
    Trousers stiff with dirt and love! Such whoring!
    Long green slimy nights: we were like stoats.
    Poems, 1913-1956 Those days of my youth [O, Ihr Zeiten meiner Jugen
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Rupert Brooke Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
    Rupert Brooke
    British poet (1887 - 1915)
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  • Bayard Taylor Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Bill Pullman Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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