Dead Quotes

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

The guy has to kill the spider and get the dead mouse outta the pool.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.