Dead Quotes

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

Lately, I can't shake the feeling that I've been living a dream for the last 10 years or so; I can't account for most of my 20s, and I have to continually remind myself that certain people are dead now and many of my friends have children.

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.

I do eat well. I try to love my body. That is what I tell my daughter. I say, 'Love every bite of food. Love your body. We're all going to be dead soon.' Actually I don't say that last thing to her.

Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

I can't swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.