Dead Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'
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Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.
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The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
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I thought I heard the dark pounding its head On a rock, crying: Who are the dead?
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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.
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I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.
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Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
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I know you aren't supposed to speak ill of the dead.
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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.
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
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It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life.
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Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.
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More than a hygienic method of disposing of the dead, cremation enabled lovers and comrades to be mingled together for eternity.
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...because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
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In this pre-Lukan tradition, Jesus was made the Son of God at the resurrection. This is a view Luke inherited from his tradition, and it is one that coincides closely with what we already saw in Romans 1:3–4. It appears to be the earliest form of Christian belief: that God exalted Jesus to be his Son by raising him from the dead.
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Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.
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TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
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The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.
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Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.
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Children were the primary victims of these filthy conditions and there were numerous anecdotes of undertakers temporarily storing the bodies of newborn infants in their own premises until there were enough dead babies to make it worthwhile giving them a decent burial.
