All the big successes of my career have been ideas that…

There's successes you have in your career. For me, for example, as a guitar player, as somebody in a band putting out albums, the…

— John Petrucci

I can tell you as a fact that if you'd asked anyone in Hollywood one year before 'Pirates of the Caribbean' had come out,…

— Dean Devlin

I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I don't remember the failures. You remember the big successes.

— Vinod Khosla

Hollywood only recognizes big successes and big failures.

— Joe Don Baker

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

— Dean Koontz

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

— Patricia Briggs

Rather be dead than cool.

— Kurt Cobain

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

— Henrik Ibsen

Library: A place where the dead lie.

— Elbert Hubbard

“I’m just–” She wanted to say “not in the mood,” but that was not only a cliché but a vast understatement. She was dead.”

— Will McIntosh

If you’re alive, don’t move, if you’re dead, don’t worry about it.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'

— Laurie Holden

Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

— Maynard James Keenan

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put…

— Debbie Reynolds