Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.
Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.
We all live on the same planet, it is our only home, so... we used to rotate crops back in the day and, you know, who cares if you're going to make a profit if everybody's too dead or glowing in the dark to be able to purchase anything.
Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
Words do not pay for my dead people.
Either he's dead or my watch has stopped.
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.
As far as Iraq, the important thing is that the Taliban is gone in Afghanistan, three-quarters of the al-Qaida leadership is either dead or in jail, and we now have Saudi Arabia working with us, Pakistan working with us.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them.
The beast is not dead.
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
We treated all of the dead with dignity.
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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 death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.
No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!
If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
Appointment viewing is dead, and I think it is going away.
I love animals and they're very easy to look after when they're dead.
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
