Dead Quotes

The dead governs the living.

Thug Life to me is dead.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

I used to empty the studio out and throw stuff away. I now don't. There will be a whole series of dead ends that a year or two down the line I'll come back to.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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.

Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.