Robert Gottlieb

Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at.

American Writer

Adam Savage

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons into my 'Creative Projects' folder - it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in. Any time I have an Internet connection, there's a sluice of stuff moving into there, everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

American Entertainer

The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.

Jeremy Grantham

The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better.

British Businessman

Adam Carolla

I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

Duane Michals

I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.

American Photographer

Vinnie Jones

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.

British Actor

Joan Fontaine

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

American Actress

Annie Lennox

Scottish Musician

Use 'dodo' when discussing species that have disappeared forever, often due to human impact.

Extinct Species

The dodo is often used to discuss history, especially about Mauritius and 17th-century explorations.

Historical Reference

'Dodo' can symbolize outdated things or concepts that no longer exist.

Cultural Symbol

As an insult, 'dodo' suggests someone is being slow or outdated in their thinking, not necessarily unintelligent.

Informal Insult

Use 'dodo' in casual speech among friends, as it might be offensive in formal or professional settings.

Colloquial Usage

'Dodo' can be used humorously among close friends or family, without intending real offense.

Playful Teasing

 and with it, important plants with medicinal potential or which could have ingredients that would speak to the cosmetic, nutrition, pharma, and even the ethno-veterinary sectors, be gone forever. And here we have a very prime example of the iconic dodo, which comes from Mauritius,

Humble plants that hide...

 commissioned mansoor to paint all kinds of wildlife mansour made one of the most accurate paintings of the dodo bird before it went extinct and he's said to have painted more than a hundred types of flowers in cashmere although only one of those paintings survives

The Secret Life of...

 only a short run before going the way of the dodo. But a few flightless birds have survived on mainlands alongside predators aplenty. Unlike most small flightless species that come and go quickly, these giants have been flightless for tens of millions of years.

Why can't some birds...

 Cooper who's now in in Adelaide and he really wanted to do this work and they didn't trust that if they let the dodo sit somewhere in the museum where he could get to it he wouldn't sneak in late at night and take that sample

National Geographic...

 "Is it a dodo egg?" "It's not an egg!" I took out the rock that had nearly brained me before and gave it a hard ponder. The size of the rising bump on my conk said to me that this thing had area, and a lot of it.

The case of the missing...

 He was supposed to be a brute, a villain -- not a nerdy do-gooder. His medical colleagues didn't know his secret, either. As he put it, "If you were an athlete, you were a dumb dodo."

Latif Nasser: The...

 wouldn't it be great if I had my own dodo skeleton? I want to point out here at this point that I've spent my life obsessed by objects and the stories that they tell,

Adam Savage: My...

 each pair will undergo a complete medical check-up and assessment we have gone dodo explaining to each of them what the health camp is we expect most of them to

Twin Epidemic PIPE National...

 change next animal passenger pigeon okay in North Dakota science fair ben novack imagine how he could bring back the extinct dodo 12 years later we employed

Reversing animal...

 and I'm looking out the door I feel like the dog looking at me stay over there dodo come this way my heart was just pounding everything was becoming so much