#dead

To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. ↗

— Og Mandino

#always #better #better life #day #dead

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#cynicism #dead #death #death

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths. ↗

— Greil Marcus

#dead #dead end #end #intrigued #longer

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#character #dead #every #give #inexperienced

Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth. ↗

— Mike Nichols

#dead #insanely #jealous #like #mammoth

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make. ↗

— William Morris

#dead #future #helping #living #make

Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#better #deadline #exercise #feel #get

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk. ↗

— Patrick Murray

#between #dead #difference #lawyer #lying

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. ↗

— Pervez Musharraf

#dead #doubt #families #greater #i