People Quote by Mal Peet Download Open image ““So? You think people stop talking to you when they are dead?”” — Mal Peet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare People Stop talking Talking Thinking
“people tell you so much more when they know you're just about to be dead . and then they talk around you, when you are.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Did you mean what you said before? About the dead hanging around? You really believe it?” — Jennifer Walkup Copy Share Image
“We can all talk to the dead. It’s getting them to talk back that’s the hard part.”2” — Bruce M. Hood Copy Share Image
History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“You do not win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making sure that some poor bastard dies for… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“This line of reasoning could have frightened him, but it did not. He gained a certain strength from it. Because, after all, what can… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, however, weapons of mass destruction tend to attract maniacs: men - it's almost always men - who want to jab the red button… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Boredom had not been among the dangers that the SOE had prepared him for. No pompous little officer had stood in front of his… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Wagstaff was a trim little man in a dark-blue uniform with an armband embroidered with the words CIVIL DEFENSE. "Thank you, Headmaster, and good… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you something. When there is a penalty kick, most people think that the penalty taker is in control. But they are… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Sprawled, bloody, holding the pistol, he looked like a police photograph of a suicide. Dart went back to his chair and picked up the… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“I can explain to you why algebra is useful. But that is not what algebra is really for.' He moved his fingers gently on… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“It still, after all these years, puts frost into my blood to remember that men like LeMay and Powers had their fingers so close… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
Sentimentality and nostalgia are closely related. Kissing cousins. I have no time for nostalgia, though. Nostalgics believe the past is nicer than the present.… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
