As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.
To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.
'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Only when manhood is dead - and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it - only then will we know what it is to be free.
I would look at older blues musicians who just keep going into their seventies. They keep doing it until they drop dead. And I've always felt like that's what I want to do. I've felt that since the day I was able to start playing music for a living. I don't see the point of thinking about retiring because it's not work to begin with.
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
In Montana, where Sen. William Andrews Clark made his fortune and lost his reputation, people had assumed that all his children were long dead. After all, he was born in 1839 and was of age to serve in the Civil War.
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.
Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really.
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
I trained as a ballet dancer and fell in love with Rudolf Nureyev; I thought him the most beautiful creature. My mum had to break it to me that not only was he gay, but he was dead.
The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
Rather be dead than cool.
I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
I was dead inside.
Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
