I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Warren Zevon

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Ben Affleck

We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Puff Daddy

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.
Jack Henry Abbott

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
Jack Henry Abbott

Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
David Hackworth

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
John Le Carre

Just because someone's dead doesn't mean it's over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.
Julian Clary

That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
William McKinley

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.
Stephen Harper

I have eyes like those of a dead pig.
Marlon Brando

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
Anna Akhmatova

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
E. M. Forster

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mother Jones

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Washington Irving

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset Maugham

Reagan's dead, and he was a lousy President.
Keith Olbermann