The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
Simone de Beauvoir

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
Freddie Mercury

When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
Freddie Mercury

Words do not pay for my dead people.
Chief Joseph

Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!
Steve Irwin

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.
Scott Adams

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.
Gerry Adams

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.
Payne Stewart

Be a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
Jim Valvano

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
Jules Renard

The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
Thomas Hobbes

VX is now a dead issue... It is political, really.
Saadi

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.
Mick Jagger

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
Emily Bronte

Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin

A person dishonored is worst than dead.
Miguel de Cervantes