Lots of people aren’t comfortable with silences. They feel they’ve got to fill the dead air. – Robin Gibb
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters. – Richard Engel
Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it’s a shame. – Ronnie Spector
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year. – Tom Lehrer
Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. – W. Somerset Maugham
God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God. – Stanley Hauerwas
The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends. – Siri Hustvedt
Romance is dead – it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece. – Yeardley Smith
I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. – Woody Allen
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. – Sarah Vowell
Either the Obamacare is a dead letter, or the origination clause is; we can’t have both. – Trent Franks
So it’s conceivable I’ll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that’s possible. – Sarah Polley
‘The Wire’ is similar to ‘The Walking Dead’ in so far as everybody pulling for everybody else to get to the turning point of the story. – Seth Gilliam
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. – Sinclair Lewis