When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
I was a student in London in the '70s, so CBGB really wasn't on my radar at all. Obviously, I was aware of the emergence of the Police in England and as an art student, I was very aware of David Byrne, but I suppose my musical taste at that time certainly didn't stretch towards the Dead Boys or the Ramones.
No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
There was a time in the mid-1950s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academically. Fifty years down the road, and we are almost dead last in the ASEAN region.
It is also asserted that the election settled the matters of the war and the torture of prisoners. These are dead issues that no longer need be addressed.
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a living and a dead body is that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent.
The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
If you don't have anything nice to say... dead silence creates a lot awkwardness.
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
I have a karaoke punk band called The Ungrateful Dead, but we don't exist yet.
When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his hammer is dead or muffled and is heard but a few yards. It is only upon dry, seasoned timber, freed of its bark, that he beats his reveille to spring and wooes his mate.
Custom is a prison, locked and barred by those who long ago were dust, the keys of which are in the keeping of the dead.
