Deadest Quotes

#1. The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

Charles Dickens

#3. As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#4. The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing alive enough to have strength to die. (from "Neutral Tones")

Thomas Hardy

#5. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. (B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.

Neal Shusterman

#7. It's the fear of what's in the dark that scares us, not the dark itself. Thanks, ancient Chinese philosophers. You guys are the best. And the deadest. But mostly the best. Jack's

Sara Wolf

#8. Looking into the muzzle of Slade's pistol. "And the next instant," added my informant, impressively, "he was one of the deadest men that ever lived.

Mark Twain

#9. How could this fatuous, emotional thing be without beginning and without end, the creator of all? I had taken the dead letter of Scripture at its very deadest, and it had killed me, according to the saying of St. Paul: "The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life

Thomas Merton

#10. He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

Barry Lyga

#11. A withered maple leaf has left its branch and is falling to the ground; its movements resemble those of a butterfly in flight. Isn't it strange? The saddest and deadest of things is yet so like the gayest and most vital of creatures?

Ivan Turgenev

#12. Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

Russell M. Nelson

#13. There ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

Alice Hegan Rice

#14. I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

Chuck Klosterman

#15. Where there is motion, there is no procrastination. Where there is no procrastination, there is no clutter.

Anna Femming

#16. The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

Bryan Stevenson

#17. There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. My two great loves. I think I always knew I would be Belly Fisher one day. I just didn't know it was going to happen like this.

Jenny Han

#19. It's not a prerequisite for an actor to be obsessed about his looks. I know there are people who don't look in the mirror at all, and I'm getting there.

Hrithik Roshan

#20. Great leaders lead by example, not by making an example of others.

Stewart Stafford