Dead Quotes

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

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.

I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

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.

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Rather be dead than cool.

I'm old, not dead.

Did you ever see the customers in health - food stores? They are pale, skinny people who look half - dead. In a steak house, you see robust, ruddy people. They're dying, of course, but they look terrific.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

I love 'Evil Dead 2!' Who doesn't love 'Evil Dead 2?'

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

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.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

I watch 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'Game of Thrones' and 'The Walking Dead' and think, 'I want to create that kind of television!'

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.

Anyone who has dead straight hair wants curls.

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

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

I never speak ill of dead people or live judges.

I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.

Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.

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

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.

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

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

I have all the patience in the world about Sirens. For me it's not a Grateful Dead project, it's a Me project.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

In Egypt, the living were subordinate to the dead.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

The left-wing, which consists of armoured and motorized forces and has no enemy in front of it, will be stopped dead in its tracks upon direct order from the Fuhrer.

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

It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

If I'd been a rock star, I'd probably now be dead.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.