The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (473 page)
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Young, Neil
1945– and
Blackburn, Jeff
1945– and
Blackburn, Jeff
1
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away.
quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 April 1994
It's better to burn out
Than to fade away.
quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note, 8 April 1994
"My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" (1978 song)
Z
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
1884–1937
1884–1937
1
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
"Literature, Revolution and Entropy" quoted in
The Dragon and other Stories
(1967, tr. M. Ginsberg) introduction
Zangwill, Israel
1864–1926
1864–1926
1
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!
The Melting Pot
(1908) act 1
Zapata, Emiliano
1879–1919
1879–1919
1
Many of them, so as to curry favour with tyrants, for a fistful of coins, or through bribery or corruption, are shedding the blood of their brothers.
on the maderistas who, in Zapata's view, had betrayed the revolutionary cause
Many of them, so as to curry favour with tyrants, for a fistful of coins, or through bribery or corruption, are shedding the blood of their brothers.
on the maderistas who, in Zapata's view, had betrayed the revolutionary cause
Plan de Ayala
28 November 1911, para. 10
Zappa, Frank
1940–93
1940–93
1
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Linda Botts
Loose Talk
(1980).
Zeno
of Citium
c.
335
bc
of Citium
c.
335
bc
1
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
to a youth who was talking nonsense
The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
to a youth who was talking nonsense
Diogenes Laertius
Lives of the Philosophers
"Zeno" ch. 7
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