I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can’t care anyway.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.
I don’t like it when people don’t look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.
A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
I wanted ‘Night of the Living Dead’ to look naturalistic, but we weren’t able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.
Noir is dead for me because historically, I think it’s a simple view. I’ve taken it as far as it can go. I think I’ve expanded on it a great deal, taken it further than any other American novelist.
Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.
I shall be found with ‘Indians’ engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
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.
So it’s conceivable I’ll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that’s possible.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
What they’re not doing is marketing the Dead Kennedys in the spirit of what the band stood for.
When a network passes, you really mourn the show. The official state of grief in Hollywood is saying you’re taking around a dead pilot.
A startup is not just about the idea: it’s about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.
Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
After having supplied myself with provisions from Mr. Travis’s, I scratched a hole under a pile of fence rails in a field, where I concealed myself for six weeks, never leaving my hiding place but for a few minutes in the dead of night to get water, which was very near.
The album’s not dead for me; I still buy vinyl albums.
Even though you’re in charge, you’re not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I’m wrong. Look at shows like ‘The Walking Dead’ and the ownership that the audience has of that show.
When you’re in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you’re either crazy or dead.
Don’t look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you’re doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you’re dead.
It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
The Olympics were something that was put in my path. I knew I was capable, I worked so hard for it, so I guess it’s like, Why wouldn’t I want to go to the Olympics? But it was never something that I was really, really dead set on. It was just what my coaches and everyone else forced upon me.
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It’s always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren’t any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They’re all very natural, sort of masculine without being overly macho.
The day an actor is not required, the day no one is writing for you, is when you’re actually dead… That’s a very scary moment.
People have SMS, right? It stinks. It’s a dead technology, like a fax machine left over from the Seventies, sitting there as a cash cow for carriers.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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.
Modernism is typically defined as the condition that begins when people realize God is truly dead, and we are therefore on our own.
The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
If you don’t have anything nice to say… dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
If you don’t change, you’re dead, so I try to keep changing.
When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
I eat ‘The Walking Dead’ like its made of brains. Can’t even watch the show, I love the book so much.
In Shakespeare’s world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?
It’s not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That’s not a problem at all.
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Habaneros have a great fruity flavor, but the challenge is that you have to deflect the heat in order to taste the flavor. If you don’t, you’re dead. They should really have a warning sign on them. Deflect the habanero’s heat by pairing it with sweet food.
It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.
It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I’d be dead.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you’re the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood – sex and the dead.
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, ‘Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,’ and I used to say, ‘Joplin? Joplin’s dead.
I’m not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
If you give me fro-yo without mangoes, you’re dead to me. If you say that Hawaiian pizza is gross, we’re done.
If you don’t have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.
Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don’t like the term, change it, for Goddess’ sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn’t matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.
