Dead Quotes

A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.

I envy the dead.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

I'd like to help repair the earth's ecosystems, and to fully live until I'm fully dead.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.

I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not!

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

The Dead was cool, It's a great horror story. I went to the casting director of this movie and talked to him, then they called my agent and had me come in and read for it and they wanted to use me.

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.

Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.

Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

It's so funny, because right now I'm very tired and my brains a little dead, I tend to get very focused and serious. So, I'm probably coming off a lot more like Scully right now.

Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye.

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'

One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.