Dead Quotes

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.

We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we must build up our own creature, build it up from nothing.

We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.