People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.
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.
The only way I can lose is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Goth is dead, punk is dead, and rock n’ roll is dead. Trends are dead. Nothing exists anymore because the world is spinning faster than any trend.
Self-care. I got that from my mom. Even if we had nothing, we were always moisturized. So much Vaseline. In the dead of winter, I was hot. I had a whole other layer on.
I mean they’re making remakes of my films and I’m not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
I don’t talk about success. I don’t know what it is. Wait until I’m dead.
Don’t try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It can’t harm the dead. Diverted to a living person, it might actually do harm.
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That’s a unique claim in the literature of religion.
From the business point of view – not to overstate it – intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
Your past is something you cannot change. You can’t live it; it’s dead.
I know nothing new except that Herr Gellert, the Leipzig poet, is dead, and has written no more poetry since his death.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher’s stall passes as food.
They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you’re looking at him. Elvis isn’t dead; he just changed color.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
I remember the day Richard Nixon won in 1968. That was a time that seemed certain to bring about long awaited seismic change in America. But events of tragic proportion took us on a turn. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were suddenly dead.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn’t dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
Let the living give thanks to our honored dead who have paid the ultimate sacrifice that the Constitution of the United States remains our guiding light.
I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
If you come back from the dead, you don’t have the same value system, I think.
The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It’s dead.
In that first blow to the deaf walls of those who have everything, the blood of our people, our blood, ran generously to wash away injustice. To live, we die. Our dead once again walked the way of truth. Our hope was fertilized with mud and blood.
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.
In the U.A.E. we were the least-regulated environment in the region, and over time we are seeing more and more regulation coming in. On the other hand, a central bank can overregulate and choke the economy, and then we will have a dead banking industry.
But I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. So I’ll take getting older.
It’s high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell’s soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you – if you are willing to pay attention.
The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.
Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
I’d rather be dead than singing ‘Satisfaction’ when I’m forty-five.
I won promotion four times as a player, and I’m not going to deny I would enjoy another one as a manager, but you can ask any of the clubs I went up with and they will tell you the same. My focus was always dead calm, always on the next game.
‘Misery’ left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be ‘Kathy ‘Misery’ Bates Is Dead.’
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
Perhaps you could sympathize with those who seek to replace a dead child with a copy, or to copy a parent or a relative or even a celebrity.
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Anyone who thinks stuntmen are crazy is dead wrong. These guys are calculating. They rig things, they think about different ways of doing it… they’re not afraid.
I envy the dead.
Dead fish don’t swim around in jealous tides.
To me, nothing feels more like being dead than being in your 20s and having no direction in your life.
That’s all a man can hope for during his lifetime – to set an example – and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
I’m so tired of hearing about ‘Renascence,’ I’m nearly dead. I find it’s as hard to live down an early triumph as an early indiscretion.
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
Over all our happy country – over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes – is our Army of the Dead.
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it’s a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.
Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.
Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
I’ve seen a dead body, I’ve seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I’ve been a hunter since I was a child, though I don’t anymore, I’ve gutted wild game.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they’re right to some extent, in that the shows they’re putting out are all the same.
