#dead

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#book #dead #genius #man #masterpiece

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#curious #dead #english #english people #few

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#arises #church #dead #institutions #machinery

The song I like to do is 'Dead.' I'm constantly playing that one. ↗

— Joey Santiago

#dead #i #like #playing #song

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#alive #being #case #dead #deal

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same. ↗

— Ben Savage

#extent #i #i think #lot #out

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. ↗

— Dan Savage

#dead #even #got #lives #love

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#any #deadline #done #even #had

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final