Dead Quotes

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

All the gods are dead except the god of war.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service.

Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

There are only two kinds of men; the dead and the deadly.

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

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.

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

My proposal to re-establish diplomatic relations - not necessarily friendly relations, but diplomatic relations - is a sensible, simple, and straightforward approach that will finally get us off dead center.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Oh, to me not drinking is like being dead, almost. I sit here taking endless journeys down memory lane. It gets boring.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas.

I like many different things you know so I'm probably going to experiment, and if I didn't I'd be a little bit strange and boring and stiff and kind of dead, and I'm very not that.

I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.