When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.
But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?
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.
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.
From the business point of view - not to overstate it - intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
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.
At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
I love - oh God, I shouldn't say this - I'm really good at bringing orchids back from the dead.
Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.
That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.
I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.
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.
Whether or not God is dead: it is impossible to keep silent about him who was there for so long.
