I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
Vern: Come on you guys. Let's get moving. Teddy: Yeah, by the time we get there, the kid won't even be dead anymore.
But there is a process that happens when you're making something, be it a musical or a new play. That process takes time, and mistakes will be made along the way, and you will go down and hit dead ends. But it is so public now. Any yahoo with a compu...
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?
I'd like to do a film in Canada, but it's too difficult. National Film Board funding takes too long, and there's too much paperwork; by the time the film is approved the topic is dead and gone.
Sophia: I loves Harpo, God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead 'fo I let him beat me.
Sofia: Now you want a dead son-in-law, Mrs. Celie? You just keep on advising him like you doing.
Uncle Les: Christ! What a stink! Lionel Cosgrove: Uh... yeah. A dog must have uh, crawled under the house and died.
Lefty: When they send for you, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.
Wooley: How the hell come we stick these low-life bastards in these big-ass hotels, anyway? Shit, man! This is better than I got!
[coming upon the mall] Stephen: What the hell is it? Roger: It looks like a shopping center, one of those big, indoor malls
[about to run a gauntlet of zombies] Roger: Whad'ya think? Bag it or try for it? Peter: You game? Roger: I need lighter fluid. Peter: You got it.
Dr. Foster: They kill for one reason: they kill for food. They eat their victims, you understand that, Mr. Berman? That's what keeps them going!
WGON-TV Cameraman: Go ahead and leave. We'll be off the air by midnight; the emergency networks are taking over. Our responsibility is finished.
Peter: I've seen half-a-dozen guys in my unit get bitten by those things. None of them lasted more than... three days.
[on a TV set, Dr. Millard Rausch argues with a TV reporter about doomsday scenarios] Francine Parker: It's really all over... isn't it?
Dr. Foster: You're not running a talk show here, Mr. Berman! You can forget pitching an audience the moral bullshit they want to hear!
Jane: Would you like a cup of tea, Sandra? Sandra: Tea can do many things, Jane, but it can't bring back the dead.
Roberto: [looking through his book of English phrases] If looks could kill, I am a-dead now.
Train Fireman: That doesn't explain why you've come all the way out here... all the way out here to hell.
