Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yann Martel

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

Strobe Talbott

The path down which India and Pakistan have started to move with these tests is a dead end, and no one else should follow down that path,

Mother Jones

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

That was a hard one to lose. The kid was ranked fourth in the state and he was dead at the end. If I could have got those two points, I think I could have took him in overtime.

We have always wanted there to be unfettered time for individuals to file these claims. The deadline serves no purpose.

Patrick Kavanagh

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

We'll oust them. We won't keep dead wood.

Time is running out. The deadline is approaching. So far, Delta has not come forward with meaningful negotiations.

Paul Mooney

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

Most of his have been doing this for a long time. It's not the first time for us to see dead bodies. We have to deal with this in the line of work. Someone has to do it and if it's going to get done, it needs to be done with respect for the family.

You can hear rumblings in the distance. It looks like the cease-fire is dead in the water. When the delays were going on you knew one of the sides was not going to sign -- and it turned out to be the government.

William Allingham

Winds and waters keep A hush more dead than any sleep.

Andre Benjamin

I stopped touring a year and a half ago, ... I just got dead with it.

I thought it was dead because he was laying down.

It is disappointing because we didn't play well in the first half. We didn't shoot well and didn't go to the foul line very much. We were just dead in the first half. We didn't have any energy. Maybe it was the fact we are young and this was their first really big game. I just don't know.

Wilson Mizner

Many a live wire would be a dead one except for his connections

The preliminary information we have is four dead and six wounded.

Paul Douglas

We are in a new and potentially deadly era for storms, one that demands new technology, new tools. It's not enough to watch TV or listen to the radio anymore. It's a good start, but if you want to maximize your odds of surviving a storm, any storm, you need multiple safety nets. You should never be totally dependent on just one source.

We know of at least 16 dead and at least one survivor so far.

I was totally in shock. I thought the deadline had passed.

I think she's dead in the water. Prior to the case, she could have gotten anybody, Target, J.C. Penney's, Kohl's, ... I think any one of them would have wanted her (if) she replaces Kmart. But where are you going to put the product?

Charles Hazlewood

I think most people's record collections are more interesting than radio generally gives them credit for. You're likely to be as interested in the Grateful Dead as Palestrina. It pisses me off how compartmentalised music is. I used to be in a punk band, you know?

We realized that a lot of kids turn 5 after the deadline and parents would love to get them in structured instruction.

We're deadly serious about our wine until it's in the bottle, and after that, it's all about having fun. We were one of the first to take this tack. We're really trying to demystify wine.

We're dead lucky to come here because it's so modern? It was like - wow!

We're converting dead space into something that's lucrative. They've done it in other places. Now we need to look at the river as something valuable, worth investing into.

We really weren't that encouraged. Everybody had dead faces before the game.

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

Unfortunately they were pronounced dead at a local hospital shortly after they were rescued.

Those who die, and remain dead while yet alive, obtain it.

We don't have a real deadline (for possible NATO bombing) but things are going to get very tense in the next few days.

Harry Anderson

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

We're not talking about separating two combatants, we're talking about engaging a combatant, to use deadly force, to ensure the security of the societies we're protecting.