#dead

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. ↗

— Aristophanes

#before #dead #friends #gone #lost

I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else. ↗

— David Attenborough

#because #could #dead #else #ever

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#civilization #creeds #deadly #first #history

All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a special time or with a specific event. With photos I always think I'm looking at something dead. ↗

— David Bailey

#always #because #dead #dead people #event

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ↗

— Russell Baker

#almost #always #best #dead #educated

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. ↗

— Russell Baker

#been #canned #comedy #dead #grafted

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#daily work #dead #effort #enthusiasm #even

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can. ↗

— Christian Bale

#deadline #giving #gone #i #i can

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead. ↗

— Anne Bancroft

#both #change #completely #dead #going

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#dead #demands #poorly #speak #tradition