#dead

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

#change #cow #day #dead #find

The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#away #books #come #deadlines #desk

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president. ↗

— Alexander Haig

#american #dead #i #only #over

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine! ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#career #dead #figure #her #i

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions. ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#command #deadline #decisions #definition #final

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. ↗

— E. Y. Harburg

#wicked #witch

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#been #concept #dead #most #policy

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#fish #forget #never #never forget #only

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone. ↗

— Phil Harris

#deadening #enough #get #had #i

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time. ↗

— Robert Hass

#going #i #i think #idea #job