Dead Quotes

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.

But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

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.

Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it's a simple view. I've taken it as far as it can go. I think I've expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.

God is not a dead equation!

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

Well, because Dawn of the Dead can take place anywhere and it shows that actually the entire planet is contaminated, I would say that it shows the new face of our world - one person, one race, united against the invisible destructive force.

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.