If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns.
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.
People influence each other, so one screening will be filled with laughs while another is dead silent.
In Barack Obama's second term, with his legislative agenda dead in a Republican-controlled Congress, the president turned to executive unilateralism on an innovative scale.
Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.
Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.
The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination.
Skipp and Spector's 'Books of the Dead' were huge influences on me as a writer.
Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir.
The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.
Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.'
