After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.
Any time you play in a USGA Championship, if you don't drive the ball on the fairway, you're dead. You're done.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
Eric Draven: Take your shot, Funboy. You got me dead bang.
Father McGruder: Stand back boy! This calls for divine intervention!
Lionel Cosgrove: [about to charge at the zombies with a hoisted law mower] Party's over!
Mum: [about Paquita] I'll tell you what she is. She's EXPERIENCED.
Void: What are you doing with this thing? Digging up a few stiffs?
3rd SWAT Cop in Projects Apt.: Shoot it, man! Shoot it in the head!
Blades: [to Peter] I *see* you, chocolate man!
Roberto: If looks can kill, I am dead now.
John Keating: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you.
Neil: If I don't ask him, at least I won't be disobeying him.
Soz: Can I go home? Richard: Oh, you're going. Your going
Simon: I think he's dead my dear.
Matthew: Thank you for loving me.
Dr. Dakota Block: No more dead bodies for daddy tonight.
Erika Berger: Our credibility isn't dead yet. Mikael Blomkvist: Mine is.
Hermione: [to Buckbeak] Come on Buckbeak! Come and get the nice dead ferret!
Dave Lizewski: If it wasn't for you, I'd be dead. Hit Girl: And if it wasn't for you... my dad wouldn't be.
Hans: [When Avner covering the naked body of the dead Jeanette with her robe] Leave it!