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I was going to write an autobiography once. I started writing it, and then I thought, 'No, let them dig around when I'm dead.'

Quotes by Jeff Beck

Dead at 50. Mike Webster! Nine-time Pro Bowler. Hall of Famer. 'Iron Mike,' legendary Steelers center for fifteen seasons.

Quotes by Jeanne Marie Laskas

Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or...

Quotes by Jane Smiley

Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

Quotes by Jane Ridley

Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.

Quotes by Jane Leavy

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

Quotes by Jamie Foxx

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Quotes by James Thurber

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.

Quotes by James Stockdale

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

Quotes by James T. Farrell

I'm friends with a lot of Brits, and they tell me when they're over here what a huge phenomenon 'The Wire' has become. Some things just attain critical mass after they're already dead and buried, and I don't know why...

Quotes by James Ransone

And I have to say, for the record, my favorite line from 'Without A Clue' is after Michael Caine pokes a dead body with a stick and announces to everyone, 'It is my opinion that this man is dead.'

Quotes by James Roday

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

Quotes by James Russell Lowell

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

Quotes by James Merrill

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Quotes by James Madison

I would have rather been dead and laying on the battlefield dead than to find out later on that one of my men were killed and didn't have me, their medic, to somehow get them out of the danger and...

Quotes by James McCloughan

Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Quotes by James M. Barrie

Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

Quotes by James Darren

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.

Quotes by Jack Wild

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Quotes by Jack Nicholson

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Quotes by Jack Henry Abbott

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a motivational quote using "dead" as a warning against stagnation?
Yes - one quote frames staying static as a kind of death: "If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing."
What does the quote about sorrow and the dead say?
One quote reflects that "The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind" - suggesting grief can have a positive, clarifying effect over time.
Is there a quote about grief being a wound we choose to keep open?
Yes, in a similar reflective vein: one quote describes sorrow for the dead as unique among sorrows, one we "refuse to be divorced" from, unlike other wounds we might "seek to heal" or eventually forget.
Is there a short, well-known quote using "dead" in a lighthearted way?
Yes: "I'll sleep when I'm dead" - a common expression about pushing through and living life fully now.
Where can I find more quotes on related themes of loss?
See our Death quotes page, or if you want something more specific, our Dead End quotes collection.

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