Quotes of: Dead-horse Keyword

” Sed paused in his song, feeling ridiculous for singing it to her while they made love. “Baby, you realize this song is about Trey’s dead dog, don’t you?

Rock Hard

The naked man who lay splayed out on his face beside the swimming pool might have been dead.

From Russia With Love

Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

From Russia With Love

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

An orphans curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh! How more horrible that that Is the curse in a dead man’s eye!

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh-and-blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.

The Road to Oz

Classics aren't books that are read for pleasure. Classics are books that are imposed on unwilling students, books that are subjected to analyses of "levels of significance" and other blatt, books that are dead.

Rite of Passage

if the goddes can forgive her, can't we?" "I think there's a big difference between forgiving her and makin her into something she wasn't just because she's dead

Revealed

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

Speaker for the Dead

Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head.

Speaker for the Dead

One of the problems with being a witch is when you ask the universe a question, it generally give you an answer.

Somebody tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

The Sea

Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.

Selected Short Fiction

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

The Sound and the Fury

Brother Preptil, the master of the music, had described Brutha's voice as putting him in mind of a disappointed vulture arriving too late at the dead donkey.

Small Gods

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

She

If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.

Single Dad Laughing

The rabbi glanced over glumly from behind the jail bars. 'My faith in God is fine,' he said. 'It's people I'm not so sure about.

A Minyan for the Dead

And now he was dead, his soul fled down to the Sunless Country and his body lying cold in the cold mud, somewhere in the city's wake.

Mortal Engines

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

The Midnight Heir