Dead Man Walking

Famous quotes containing the words dead, man and/or walking:

“The pangs of conscience, where are the pangs of conscience? Orestes and Clytemnestra, Reinhold doesn’t even know the names of those fine folk. He simply hopes, heartily and sincerely, that Franz is dead as a doornail and won’t be found.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

“That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)

“And let a scholar all earth’s volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary:
A mere articulate clock.”
—George Chapman (1559–1634)