Dead Quotes

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

The theory of undirected evolution is already dead, but the work of science continues.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

What they're not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.