I used to walk through the Old Times Square fearing for my life. Now I wouldn't be caught dead there.
I grew up with a lot of guys, some of them are dead, some of them are this and some of them that, and some of them very, very powerful, bright young men, who became this instead of that simply because of a lack of guidance - that's all.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
It would appear that love is dead. Or very likely in a bad way.
I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.
Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.
I'm very happy with the response for everything I've done, but, you know, sometimes you get things like, 'Oh, 'Spaced' Series One wasn't as good as 'Spaced' Series Two.' Or 'Shaun of the Dead' is not as good as 'Spaced,' or, 'Hot Fuzz' is not as good as 'Shaun.' Or, now, 'The World's End' is not 'Shaun of the Dead.'
I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.
But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.
God isn't dead - he's just missing in action.
Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons.
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The dead govern the living.
By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
