I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.
Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That's over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it's going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.
I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
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.
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.
I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
I think I went to 67 'Grateful Dead' shows. I'm the only 'Deadhead' who doesn't know the precise number, and it's totally humiliating.
Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
I think Walking Dead is more of a stretch for me because I'm a light hearted superhero kind of guy.
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
People still do not understand that a live fish is more valuable than a dead one, and that destructive fishing techniques are taking a wrecking ball to biodiversity.
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.
It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
