“I'm not living,
I'm just killing time”
Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
True Love Waits
Lyrics, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)
“I'm killing time and it's dying hard.”
— Raymond Chandler, book The Long Goodbye
Variant: Mostly I just kill time," he said, "and it dies hard.
Source: The Long Goodbye
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Laura Nyro (1947–1997) American musician and songwriter
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“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”
Utah Phillips (1935–2008) American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
Attributed in Naomi Klein's No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs https://books.google.com/books?id=Yq_WAUXqRAEC&pg=PA325 (2009), p.325, and in Mark Lynas' Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs https://books.google.com/books?id=V10-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA16 (2018), p. 16. <br class="br">Attributed
“There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
Widely attributed to Camus on the internet, the earliest attribution of such a statement to him yet located is an unsourced citation in Quotations from the Wayside (1999) by Brenda Wong: "Many things are worth dying for, but none worth killing for." The earliest occurrence yet located of such a statement, by anyone, is one by Albert Dietrich in a 31 January 1943 letter to his conscientious objector status Hearing Officer, reported in Army GI, Pacifist CO : The World War II Letters of Frank and Albert Dietrich (2005) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3o4JN_C69VwC edited by Scott H. Bennett: "There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for."<br>Prior to the attribution to Camus, the most widely publicized occurrence of such an expression was probably in the song "Too Long A Soldier" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQcU1ecPOc by Neil Giraldo and Myron Grombacher, sung by Pat Benatar on her album Wide Awake In Dreamland (1988): "I've seen so much worth dying for, so little worth killing over." <br class="br">Misattributed
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Variant: I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.
Source: The Hunger Games
“It’s hard to kill a city, but easy to kill a company.”
Geoffrey West (1940) British physicist
2010s <br class="br">Source: Austin Brown. " Geoffrey B. West, 'Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster' http://blog.longnow.org/02011/07/26/geoffrey-b-west-%E2%80%9Cwhy-cities-keep-on-growing-corporations-always-die-and-life-gets-faster%E2%80%9D/." at blog.longnow.org, July 26th, 2011.