1142 Dead Quotes for You to Enjoy

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy. Sebastian Junger

Enemy Fighting Military Every Ratio Generally Lightly Armed Counts Dead American American Military

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life. Selman Waksman

There are very few things that are certain in this market - apart from one, and that is that small displacement diesels are dead. Sergio Marchionne

Few Market Small Dead Very Few Things Apart Certain Displacement Things

I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Time Too Much Long National Gone Difficult Too Approved Topic Paperwork Takes Like Dead Canada Board Much Film Funding By The Time

I certainly know all about the Jersey jokes that amuse the rest of the country. You've probably heard them. Our state bird is the mosquito. Our state tree is dead. It doesn't help that we are represented on television by Tony Soprano and 'Jersey Shore.' Sharon Kay Penman

If I can be dead honest with you, when I first see the script for a new episode of 'Endeavour,' if anything jars, I say, 'What's this? Has it got a place in our story?' And if it hasn't, it has to go. Shaun Evans

You First Our Say See New Dead Got Go Endeavour Anything Story Place Script Episode Honest

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end. Shepard Fairey

Politics People Think Intimidated Dead Dead End Identity End Going

Sidney Farber was a pathologist. He was called a doctor of the dead. He was a pathologist who sort of lived in the basement of the children's hospital in Boston, and he became very interested in childhood leukemia. And Farber began to inject this drug, aminopterin, into young kids, in order to see if he could get a remission. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Doctor Young Kids See Boston Could Hospital He Remission Dead Sort Became Began Very Get Childhood Children Order Young Kids Interested Who Lived Basement Leukemia

Chivalry is dead. Sienna Miller

Dead Chivalry

It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our contemporary reality. Conversely, it just takes skilful storytelling to recharge that connection to make the past come alive in our present. Simon Schama

History Reality Determination Past Our Alive Seem Takes Instinctive Come Remote Contemporary Dead Make Disconnected Curiosity Just Storytelling Perverse Connection Away Present Drain

We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality. Simon Schama

Cheating Become Dissolve Earth Promise Seem Wired Allowing Part Mortality Dead Grieve Held Cycle Seasons Millennia

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

Fools Nothing Once Corpses Easier More Brute Brute Force Ideas Dead Force Spread Were Than Cannot Story Who

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead. Sinbad

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky. Solon

Man Happy Only He Until Dead Call Lucky

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead. Solon

Be Happy Happy No-One He Until Dead Said

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak. Sophie Hannah

Impossible Crime Out Intriguing Solution Freak Seeds Scenario Structure Structured Mysterious Never Contain Weird Highly Opening Dead Meticulous Questions Should Body Novels Start

I went to a failing school, and by the grace of God, my mother was able to put me into private school, and had she not, I would probably be in a gang or dead right now, because that was the road I was going down. Stacey Dash

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