Dead Quotes

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.

Rufus? He's a grand kisser, and he's dead sexy.

Chivalry is dead.

The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.

A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Do not think too much of the dead husk of your friend, or mourn too much over it, but send your thoughts out towards the real soul or self which has escaped - to reach it.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

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

Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can't harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

You can see when an actor gets bored: Their eyes go dead. I promised myself I'd never let that happen. If it does, I'll go and live on a desert island for a year.

Everyone I used to play with has either given up or is dead.

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.

Texas, to be respected must be polite. Santa Anna living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna dead, would just be another dead Mexican.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.