Deadready Quotes & Sayings

I think we live our lives in other people's hearts and minds. Alone by ourselves we're not very much good at all. But when we let someone else in with their stories and all their sights and sounds and songs and smells and sensations, we suddenly start building up libraries, filling boxes and drawers with them, books and shelves and chests... — Elliot Mabeuse

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people. — D.H. Lawrence

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives. — John Locke

The Bible clearly reminds us that left to ourselves, we would be lost forever. — David Platt

Love means to learn to look at yourself the way one looks at distant things for you are only one thing among many. — Czeslaw Milosz

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Horror. Horrible. The things people do these days to disrespect the dead are just awful. So we're going to respect my dead friend properly." "By stuffing the chimney full of fireworks." "By stuffing the chimney full of fireworks!" She agrees. — Sara Wolf

I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway. — Michael Gira

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor. — Brie Larson

I write R-rated action dramas, and every year that goes by, that gets to be a smaller and smaller world you have to work in. You have to think of how to get the studio excited and sell them something. — Brian Helgeland

I've definitely had ideas and plans that sometimes exceed my means and capabilities. — Emile Hirsch

Let valour end my life! — Walter Raleigh