Death Knell Quotes

#1. Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Garrison Keillor

#2. In 2015, Vladimir Putin may witness his empire's death knell

Strobe Talbott

#3. This sounded the death knell of small family businesses, soon to be followed by the disappearance of the individual entrepreneur, gobbled up one by one by the increasingly hungry ogre of capitalism, and drowned by the rising tide of large companies.

Emile Zola

#4. Attempts to tame the wayward and domesticate the riotous, to make the unknowable predictable and enchain the free-roaming - all such things sound the death knell to love.

Zygmunt Bauman

#5. What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Agnes Repplier

#6. Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

Fanny Fern

#7. To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#8. Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.

Darren Star

#9. You're better off single," Bill had always told him. "More marketable. A relationship will threaten your role as America's heartthrob." And always he would add, "Whatever you do, Hill, don't get someone pregnant. It'd be a death knell to your image.

Karen Kingsbury

#10. A thousand times over, the death knell of the Bible has been sounded, the funeral procession formed, the inscription cut on the tombstone, and committal read. But somehow the corpse never stays put.

Bernard Ramm

#11. The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past
no matter how good it was.

Jeff Bezos

#12. Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.

Elizabeth Fishel

#13. They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

Emma Goldman

#14. The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

Annie Besant

#15. I think self-doubt, as grim as it can be, makes me a better writer. Stasis and hubris would probably be the death knell for my career.

Kristan Higgins

#16. The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.

Edmund Morris

#17. Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. Encourage innovation. Change is our lifeblood, stagnation our death knell.

David Ogilvy

#19. My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

Noam Chomsky

#20. Here's what the death knell for the personal computer will sound like: Mainly I use my phone/paid, but I still use my PC to write long e-mails and documents. Most people aren't there yet, but that's where we're headed

Paul Allen

#21. I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Wesley Schultz

#22. The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Anne Hathaway

#23. But now you have another problem. Keeping him from exploding like a live granade and blitzing all of us." He started walking down the hall. "I've already had a little taste of that and I'm not willing to stand for it again. I'm patient, I'm not a martyr. Fix it Eve.

Iris Johansen

#24. And thou art terrible
the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#25. A real foolproof way to do it is play your stuff by hook or by crook and build up a grass roots following.

Duncan Sheik

#26. The Ospreys, these children, were my life. Without them, I had nothing. But with them ... With them, I would take back my kingdom.

Jodi Meadows

#27. It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Sarah Silverman

#28. There are no rules. Only principles and natural laws.

Diana Wynne Jones

#29. How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself ... ?

Dalma Heyn

#30. I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.

Norman Finkelstein

#31. Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.

Cynthia Ozick

#32. Everyone has scars, they just aren't as visible as yours

Anne Eliot

#33. What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Derek Bok

#34. God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

Oswald Chambers

#35. I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6 and wear a size 10 shoe.

Ellen Barkin