Degrees Quote by Anonymous

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

— Walter Keane

“According to his upbringing, there were certain subjects that it was ill-mannered to raise in conversation with a new acquaintance. With the likes of…

— Jonathan L. Howard

“All had had close calls. They lived in what combat correspondent Dale Dye would later call “the high weirdness of survival when the odds…

— Mark Bowden

“Dr. Leon Stone turned out to be one of the most important people in Horselover Fat's life. To get to Stone, Fat had to…

— Philip K. Dick

“Aubrey Fitzwilliam hated being dead. It made things much harder than they needed to be.”

— Michael Pryor

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Odd Thing to Read After an Autopsy: “He was in much better health than we expected.” Well, yeah … except for the DEAD part.”

— Teresa Medeiros

“He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.”

— Howard Browne

“Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.”

— Burl Barer

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

— Diana Gabaldon

“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.”

— Janet McAdams

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more…

— Derek Walcott