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Quotes About Dead

I'm so grateful that the Internet and the DVD came along because, otherwise, something like 'Freaks And Geeks' would have been dead. At the time we made the show, those avenues weren't really available, and the idea of the show carrying on after it was canceled was something that didn't really happen.
~ Linda Cardellini
The sky was the colour of an unpolished euphonium, tuned to a dead key.
~ Unknown
I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of Time, I wanted to make readers aware of Navajo attitude toward the dead, respect for burial sites.
~ Tony Hillerman
Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.
~ Tony Parsons
Welcome to Mount Ruin, Dead Girl.
~ Unknown
Y'know, I kind of prefer it when the dead stay dead.' 'Pot. Kettle. Black,' Owen said. 'Yeah,' agreed Jack with a shrug. 'The difference is, I do it with style.
~ Unknown
I thought you said you wre bringing a dead body in for examination. Didn't you think to check he actually was dead first?' Gwen knew he was being sarcastic, but the tone still stung. 'Be fair, Jack,' said Owen from the doorway.'Y'know the guy had done a lot to make himself look dead: lain in a bog for forty years, decayed himself, let the worms in, shrivelled up a bit, stopped breathing, no circulation, all major organs dried up and inactive. Could've fooled anyone.
~ Unknown
HELLO!" the second dragon shouted down the chasm, making Blue jump. "HELLOOOOOOO, ANNOYING WINGLESS DRAAAAAAGON. ARE YOU DEAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THESE ROCKS? OR ALMOST DEAD? COULD YOU CROAK 'YEAH, I'M HERE, TOTALLY DEAD, CARRY ON' SO WE CAN ALL GO HOME AND SAY WE FOUND YOU?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
What?" Undauntable could sense a new simmering rage building under his father's skin. "But there was a dead dragon! The last two spies said he has its tail!
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not materialised. The world, and himself, remained so far from what they should be: so imperfect.
~ Unknown
I stood there, 220 pounds of ex-football player, ex-public defender, ex-a-lot-of-things, leaning against the faded walnut rail of the witness stand, home to a million sweaty palms. To Speak for the Dead (The Jake Lassiter Series) http://tinyurl.com/69eua2t
~ Paul Levine
A day or so later, the formal celebrations ended, less raucously, with ritual all-nighters at grave sites in rural villages outside Oaxaca bidding the dead farewell.
~ Paul Theroux
Books, for example—she had thought of books as diversion and amusement. Now she knew they were communication between minds, her own and others, living and dead. Such communication was the source of learning and she had a thirst for learning
~ Pearl S. Buck
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
~ Emily Dickinson
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
~ Helen Frankenthaler
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
~ Thomas Carlyle
I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.
~ Eminem
Scion of chiefs and monarchs, where art thou? Fond hope of many nations, art thou dead? Could not the grave forget thee, and lay low Some less majestic, less beloved head?
~ Lord Byron
You don't think eating dead bodies is harmful? I gasped. We haven't had any complaints from the dead yet, Gavner chortled, but his humor was forced — he looked as uncomfortable as I felt.
~ Darren Shan
Your playmates sent him?" I asked, nodding at the dead man. "I only talked to him with this," he said, patting the automatic on the bed, "but I reckon they did." "How did it happen?" "It happened simple enough. I heard the door opening, and I switched on the light, and there he was, and I shot him, and there he is.
~ Dashiell Hammett
In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
~ Dave Barry
Now I know what you're saying. You're saying: 'Dave, you have painted a distorted and inaccurate picture of the American health-care system. Not all patients wind up being as wretched as Mary! Many of them wind up being dead'.
~ Dave Barry
Officially, it is no more possible to be a little bit OCD than it is to be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead.
~ David Adam
If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.
~ David Adams Richards