What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?
Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)
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.
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
I have the feeling that everybody was waiting for me to die so they could rediscover me. Then they found out I'm not dead yet, so they are rediscovering me while I'm still alive.
First of all, you're dead. Secondly, I cut off your head. Thirdly... yes, I know that rhymed, you really don't have to tell me.
A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.
I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
Some people wake up fast. Some people wake up slow. I wake up dead.
When you're dead weight, in the right position, you win. And in reality, you wouldn't see someone my size kicking seven martial arts experts and winning.
Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.
I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
You think being dead inside is bad until someone brings you back to life and stabs you in the chest without the intention of killing you.
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
