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The likes of Frank Lampard and John Terry at Chelsea, English players with proper status at a club, they're going to be like the dodo bird. Extinct. -- Vinnie Jones
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying -- Charles Lamb
Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct. -- Tom Peters
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels. -- Georg Trakl
There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. -- Paul Watson
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. -- Larry Niven
Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. -- Paula Abdul
Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. -- Kevin Kelly
My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen. -- Quvenzhane Wallis
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. -- Peter Benchley
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park? -- Hendrik Poinar
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct. -- Daniel Dennett
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. -- John F. Kennedy
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People are beginning to realize that we need to live in accordance with the law of ecology, the law of finite resources, and if we don't, we're going to go extinct. -- Paul Watson
I laughed when Steven Spielberg said that cloning extinct animals was inevitable. But I'm not laughing anymore, at least about mammoths. This is going to happen. It's just a matter of working out the details. -- Hendrik Poinar
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist. -- Patch Adams
I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not and end up going extinct. We'd be the laughingstock of the aliens of the cosmos if that were the case. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. -- Werner Herzog
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question. -- David Attenborough
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests. -- Chris Noth
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne. -- John Irving
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine. -- James Hansen
All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself. -- Joseph P. Bradley
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. -- Carl Sagan
If you don't change, you will become extinct. -- Spencer Johnson
IF you don't change, you can become extinct! -- Spencer Johnson
It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct. -- Brett Hull
A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears. -- Charles Darwin
If you do not change, you can become extinct ! -- Spencer Johnson
Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct. -- Marilyn Manson
Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. -- E. O. Wilson
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears. -- Octavio Paz
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. -- Albert Einstein
Red squirrels... you don't see many of them since they became extinct. -- Michael Aspel
If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for. -- Tommy Shaw
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. -- Bertrand Russell
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct. -- Jasper Fforde
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. -- W. Somerset Maugham
If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now. -- Fred Allen
The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears. -- David Foreman
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand. -- Dr. Seuss
You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. -- Michael Crichton
Man, I so sick of dinosaurs. They wasn't extinct, I'd go out an' kill 'em myself. -- Lawrence Block
Characters last. Beautiful writing lasts. A compelling narrative lasts. Art survives long after ideas go extinct.... -- Joel Achenbach
I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct. -- Ethel M. Dell
Hope, that risky, illustrious thing. It should have gone extinct by now, but we keep it alive. -- Lauren DeStefano
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct. -- Christopher Cokinos
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life -- Octavio Paz
The heavenly light you admire is fossil-light, it's the unfathomably distant past you gaze into, stars long extinct -- Joyce Carol Oates
Some of you with the way you running right now, the way you working, you will be extinct. -- Eric Thomas
The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing. -- Cher
The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct. -- Robert Peel
Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? -- J. G. Ballard
Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations. -- Steve Miller
You can't be extinct if people aren't even aware you ever existed. I should know, because I don't know. -- Jarod Kintz
Because of the varroa mite, wild honey bees are now, for all practical purposes, extinct in the United States. -- Hannah Nordhaus
Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart. -- Richard Jackson
We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals. -- Michio Kaku
In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually. -- Richard Lewontin
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us. -- Karl Popper
But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
There's so much to say, the human race will be extinct long before everything which could be said has been said. -- Steve Fowler
Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?" "I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct. -- Cassandra Clare
The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher. -- Simon Hoggart
Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. -- William C. Samples
...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand... -- Nicole Krauss
The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through. -- A. Whitney Brown
The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. -- Jeanette Winterson
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today. -- Betty White
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are. -- Mary J. Blige
My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct. -- William Goffe
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? -- Jim Cymbala
The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky. -- James Montgomery
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now. -- Abraham Lincoln
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes. -- Jerry Spinelli
Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes extinct. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct. -- Richard Dawkins
Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth. -- Will Cuppy
I would choose no other band, given the opportunity, except for one that's extinct, like Devo. Sorry to my bandmates, but I'd rather be in Devo. -- Nate Mendel
The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs. -- Dean Koontz
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. -- Will Cuppy
Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct. -- Gaylord Nelson
Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery. -- John Burnside
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus which quickens the inevitable end. -- Henry Miller
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! -- Larry Niven
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me... -- Mary Wollstonecraft
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct. -- George Orwell
I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. -- Vivienne Westwood
If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on. -- Elizabeth Kolbert
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival. -- Bertrand Russell
The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see live, then you have a great career. -- Bette Midler
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct. -- Ishmael
The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have. -- James A. Baldwin
In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -- Paul R. Ehrlich
When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic. -- Kenneth Lacovara
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year. -- Douglas Adams
HARMONISTS, n. A sect of Protestants, now extinct, who came from Europe in the beginning of the last century and were distinguished for the bitterness of their internal controversies and dissensions. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another... -- Julius Caesar
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss. -- Daniel Pauly
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct. -- Charles Darwin
I'll just have them change the entry in the demonology textbook from 'almost extinct' to 'not extinct enough for Alec. He prefers his monsters really, really extinct.' Will that make you happy? -- Cassandra Clare
Super Junior is not a group who will extinct in two or three years. We will always be with E.L.F. for 20 or 30 years until E.L.F. doesn't need us again. -- Leeteuk
There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
What distinguishes genocide from murder, and even from acts of political murder that claim as many victims, is the intent. The crime is wanting to make a people extinct. The idea is the crime. -- Philip Gourevitch
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party. -- Ed Rollins
On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging, -- Robert Hughes

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