Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.
Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
You must prune dead or dying wood.
The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.
But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.
I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.
There's scary stuff in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.' There's some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.
It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.
Whoever says Real Madrid are dead is always proved wrong in the long term.
I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.
Television is dead. And television will not be reborn. It will not come back.
The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
When I was growing up in the early '70s and really getting into music, waiting outside the record store for that 45, waiting for a single from The Dead, The Clash, David Bowie, or T-Rex or something to be there. There was something about that that was so special.
Quick. Name ten dead redheads.
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
