Dead Quotes · Page 10

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

A little competitive side of me just doesn't want to come dead last.

— Guy Sebastian

The three actors I admire the most are all dead. Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy and the French actor, Jean Gabin. They're all…

— Michael Caine

You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.

— Lisa Scottoline

“I needed nothing and was needed nowhere. I almost doubted I was alive.”

— Catherine Lacey

Absence is absence, you know? The loss of someone can be just as devastating if they're alive as if they're dead.

— Adam Silvera

I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman…

— Richard Cohen

No one can be said to be happy until he is dead.

— Solon

I can put on my resume: 'Can play dead.'

— Tom Verica

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

— King George V

Yeah, I miss the Grateful Dead. I miss that groove. I miss the brotherhood. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it.

— Mickey Hart

One thing about an artist, it doesn't matter how much your work sells for in your life, it's going to sell for…

— Tracey Emin

“The faithful clamoured to be buried alongside the martyrs, as close as possible to the venerable remains, a custom which, in anthropological…

— Catharine Arnold

My mother had seven children in seven years. No twins. She also had a three-legged beagle who was compelled to bite strangers,…

— Rosemary Mahoney

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

— Kenya Barris

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

— Alfred Nobel

A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

— Andrew Dominik

I would have liked to have worked with Ralph Richardson and Paul Scofield, but they're dead now.

— Charles Dance

“In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy…

— W.B. Yeats

I always liked how David Beckham played - his set-plays and his dead balls.

— Kieran Trippier

“Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes…

— H.R. Wakefield

One does not re-light a dead cigarette.

— Anna Held

I worked at CBS in the late '90s, and I remember sitting in meetings with both advertisers and digerati, and everyone was…

— Ross Levinsohn

It is true that a large percentage of the Western world hopes that I am imprisoned or dead. But all my people,…

— Abu Abbas

It's dead nice to know I've achieved something.

— Lauren Socha