Dead Quotes

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can't make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!

You've got to stop whipping a dead horse sometime.

But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.

I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.

The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity.