#dead

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them. ↗

— George Villiers

#dead #fame #grows #hair #just

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. ↗

— Tim Vine

#coffee #dates #day #deadline #every

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#always #dead #dinner #either #having

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. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. ↗

— Simone Weil

#brute force #cannot #corpses #dead #easier

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out. ↗

— Peter Weiss

#clogged #dead #even #generation #ideas

Kill the guard real dead for me," Matt said when Grayson made a move toward the door, "and pick up Chinese food". ↗

— Dorothy McFalls

#food

One naughty little woodpecker Another day pecking your holes Ruining the the forest, tree wrecker The angry wood god turned your little beak into a poison knife Poor little wood pecker, your nesting holes are all tainted Your foods with toxins rife Touch your friends, and they all will die falling to your feet Oh, sad little woodpecker Poisonous tears, shining brightly as they stream down your cheeks ↗

— Shiro

#shiro-s-lullaby #food

I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one. ↗

— Mae West

#die #good #hate #i #like

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#dreams #interpret #may #speak #their