Dead Quotes

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

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.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven't elected a new one. There's no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don't miss it.

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.

A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.

For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Here in L.A., there are a lot of dead spots, and you have to drive to find energy, but all of India is so energetic.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

I will try to write books until I drop dead.