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We wouldn't have to speak so critically if businesses would stop feeding dead animals to live ones, putting non-food substances into food, tinkering with genetic codes, and spraying the countryside with poisons.

Quotes by Donella Meadows

I was obsessed with not knowing what happened after you were dead. And I sat or kneeled for a whole day with my head against the wall, trying to figure it out. But I couldn't, and I just said, 'Okay.'...

Quotes by Donald Sutherland

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Quotes by Don DeLillo

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

Quotes by Don Ellis

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.

Quotes by Dolly Parton

Man, I don't read books! I just read a bunch of 'Walking Dead' comics. I don't even read comics, but zombies are something I just can't get enough of.

Quotes by Diplo

In my opinion, what 'The Evil Dead' is to horror, 'Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters' is to action-fantasy, with these horror elements and a steampunk-y twist.

Quotes by Derek Mears

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

Quotes by Derek Walcott

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

Quotes by Dennis Rodman

I said in October of 2008 that there was no proof that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or had the intention or capability of attacking the United States. Here we are. Almost 4,700 troops died, tens of thousands injured,...

Quotes by Dennis Kucinich

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

Quotes by Denise Mina

There is that idea of seeming crazy when you're seeing spirits or you're seeing dead people, you know what I mean? There's a certain sort of stigma, a sort of kookiness, when it comes to that.

Quotes by Deborah Mailman

Every decade the game changes and evolves, but by no means do I think the center position is dead, because there's still a lot of great centers.

Quotes by DeAndre Jordan

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred,...

Quotes by Debbie Macomber

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.

Quotes by Debbie Reynolds

People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.

Quotes by Dean Kamen

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Quotes by Dean Koontz

When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and...

Quotes by Dean Devlin

Metrosexuality is dead. And good riddance to it.

Quotes by David Zinczenko

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

Quotes by Davy Crockett

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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