Dead Deader Quotes & Sayings

When she gets rattled, the South really comes out. Once when Daddy tried to cancel our country club membership because he said the dues were too high, she went from zero to Atlanta burning in zero point five seconds. — Jen Lancaster

To love is never just to love since it is also to will to love, and ... to love in spite of oneself, to allow oneself to be overcome by one's love. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Journalistic content is a technical complex expressly intended to adapt man to the machine. — Jacques Ellul

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader. — Howard Browne

Latin is already a dead language, man ... don't make it any deader. — Jerry Scott

Simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner. — James Woods

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by. — Nelson Mandela

What's the hurry? From my experience, dead bodies don't get any deader. — David Harry

If life is a soap opera you shouldn't be in too much of a hurry to get to the final credits. — Michael Portillo

I'm Irish! ... When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody. — Morgan Llywelyn

There's nothing deader than a dead love. — Leona Helmsley

There are few things deader than a dead brown trout stream. — Ed Zern

Generally speaking, the deader the author, the more worthwhile the work. — William T. Vollmann

My fishing hole is deader than ... a dead thing that's dead. — Tom Riley

The most important work of the executive is to identify the changes that have already happened. The important thing ... is to exploit the changes that have already occurred and to use them as opportunities. — Peter Drucker

However much we hate the law, we are more afraid of grace — Robert Farrar Capon

London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others.
Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city - New York or Paris or Sydney - but he felt instinctively that London was ... at the extreme. The darker side of that history, as opposed to the parks, palaces and pearly kings' side that made busloads of Japanese and American tourists gawk and jabber. The hidden history of a city where the lonely, the dispossessed, the homeless, wandered the streets, brushing shoulders with the shadows of those that had come before them. A city in which the poor and the plague-ridden, those long-since hanged for stealing a loaf or murdered for a shilling, jostled for position with those seeking a meal, or a score, or a bed for the night.
A city where the dead could stay lost a long time — Mark Billingham

If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?' — Patrick Wilson

It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends ... — J.R.R. Tolkien

When I got back to Rome I discovered that the Italian army considered me dead - in Gruensee, in the observation post, and on the Cima Bianca. That I was reported killed three times seemed not to affect their trust in the reports except to strengthen it. Being the army, they must have thought that anyone who was killed three times was most certainly deader than if he had been killed only once. — Mark Helprin

The autocracy was legitimized by its ever-expanding multi-faith, multi-ethnic empire, yet the later emperors regarded themselves as the leaders first of the Russian nation but then of the entire Slavic community. The more they embraced Russian nationalism, the more they excluded (and often persecuted) their huge non-Russian populations, — Simon Sebag Montefiore

He's dead, then?" said Ridmark, the cold healing magic spreading through him. "He's a burned corpse with a soulblade stuck in his chest," said Gavin. "I suppose he could be deader, but it's hard to see how." — Jonathan Moeller