I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.

Editors may think of themselves as dignified headwaiters in a well-run restaurant but more often they operate a snack bar and expect you to…

— Anonymous

I'm not a person who believes in the great difference between women and men as editors. But I do think that quality is key.…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

“The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead…

— Flannery O'Connor

“I think the dead have no nationality.”

— Cormac McCarthy

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

— Satya Nadella

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record…

— Michael Holroyd

I get very nervous when it's quiet, because I think it's dead. What I learned in the moment was to hold back a little…

— Sheila Nevins

“Do you ever think it's the dead that have the happy ending? Just they don't have to worry about surviving." "But they're dead," he…

— Carrie Ryan

“sometimes when you think that sin is dead and that it has gone away, those are the most dangerous times of all, because at…

— Anonymous

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

— Anonymous

“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Whenever I think about you I love you, and when I don't think I am dead.

— Mirza

“Or you can fake your own death," Bill suggested. "Because really, that's the most cathartic resolution—if all your friends and family think you're dead.…

— Jordan Castillo Price

An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't…

— Helen Thomas