“Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”

— Terry Pratchett , book Hogfather

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English author 1948–2015

Michael Kinsley (1951) American political journalist, commentator television host

As quoted in Commentary: The gaffer speaks, The Times, April 23, 1988.

“You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm — we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish — ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

A Joy for Ever, lecture II, section 74 (1857).

“To a young actor: How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches!”

Mae West (1893–1980) American actress and sex symbol

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

“It is better to have one seven-foot jumper on your team than any number of six-foot jumpers.”

Frederick Terman (1900–1982) American electronic engineer

as quoted in his Biography, at the Guide to the Frederick Emmons Terman Papers http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf029000zm, Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.