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God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.
I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.
I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
If I couldn't have discipline, if I sit up eatin' fried chicken in bed at night, I'd just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.
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.
I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
One thing about being successful is that I stopped being afraid of dying. Once you're a star you're dead already. You're embalmed.
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.
I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
Heath Ledger was supposed to put our album on what would have been a new record label. I still feel a little dead after losing him.
I have an idea for a movie called 'The Walken Dead' which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.
Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.
My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.
The Dead Daisies have been an absolute blast for me so far. The guys are all great musicians and also incredibly easy to work with.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read. And it's only news until he's read it. After that it's dead.
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
I have watched music go from an art form into an industry. And I have watched it stop dead in its tracks because of the digital age.
Cheever constantly voiced doubts about his writing. Reading 'The Naked and the Dead' made him despair of his own 'confined talents.'
I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.
Mountaineering is over. Alpinism is dead. Maybe its spirit is still alive a little in Britain and America, but it will soon die out.
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Death is final. No it is not just final, it's worse than that, it's diminishing: the dead continue to decrease, to occupy less space.
I didn't play after the Grateful Dead stopped playing. I didn't touch anything for three or four months, and I just got pretty crazy.
I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.
My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.
'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead' is one of the most underrated films. There were even different cuts of it. A wonderful film.
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're dead.
I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.