Dead Quotes

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

It's not that sexual liberation or feminist messages are dead.

I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.

My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

Lots of people aren't comfortable with silences. They feel they've got to fill the dead air.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

You're either living or you're dead.

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.