Dead Quotes

One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.

R&B is never going to be dead, it's just going to evolve.

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and large the network has been understanding, but then so have I.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Let me start by saying, I'm utterly disgusted with the former members of the Dead Kennedys.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

I wouldn't be caught dead marrying a woman old enough to be my wife.

Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

God is dead!

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.

For the dead there are no more toils.

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.