Dead Quotes
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Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken.
[Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
Plutarch
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He who does not move with the times is a dead man...
Vicki Baum
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As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.
Keith Olbermann
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It's dead -- for the time being. I think we're in a dark period right now. They're going after growers and seed dealers, and more people are being charged with simple possession.
Alan Young
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Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.
Edward Caswall
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Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.
Amy Poehler
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I like my food dry. Not sick, not even dying, dead.
Oscar Wilde
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The cliché of that sort of wasted, renegade, drugged-out musician of the '70s is kind of dead and gone now. And I suppose that a lot of people still keep relying on that, or some kind of image to perpetuate something that they think they're supposed to sound like. But that kind of takes you away from real inspiration and, you know, real artistic discovery of the individual.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.
Chris Martin
Coldplay
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I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
April Winchell
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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
Arthur Honegger
