It's easy for the board to say, 'Well, add makeover shows.' The No. 1 show for women in the United States is 'The Walking Dead.' That's not a makeover show.
Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth.
Customer service, they say, is dead. Actually, it isn't. It's just hiding behind a call center in Manila.
I traveled to Israel in a small party assembled by Marty Peretz, the editor-in-chief of 'The New Republic.' Other guests included Senator Al Gore and his wife, Tipper. Like every tourist group, we climbed Masada, floated in the Dead Sea, and visited a kibbutz.
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?
And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.
In the modern world, it may be that a living father can only be half a father to a boy - the dead father is the other vital half: the half that grows the boy up once and for all.
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet.
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
I am not concerned about my posthumous fame. Monuments are no good to the dead.
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.
Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.
Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.
