Dead Quotes

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government.

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.

Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.

If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

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

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?

Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.