The Quick And The Dead Quotes

#1. End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home.

J.R. Ward

#2. We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Bernard Baruch

#3. There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. There are two kinds of pedestrians ... the quick and the dead.

Thomas Dewar

#5. Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.

Jeanette Winterson

#6. The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home.

J.R. Ward

#7. As a quick aside, phantoms of the living are not unheard of. There are plenty of documented cases in the paranormal case literature that detail apparitions of people who are not actually dead. But they rarely appear within sight of the physical person themselves, and certainly not at the same time.

Richard Estep

#8. Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Mary Shelley

#9. But it makes me laugh every time because I don't wear and of that name-brand crap, don't play or follow popular sports at all, and wouldn't be found dead wearing our shitty school mascot. I'm not a follower. Not a joiner. I'm not even on Facebook.

Matthew Quick

#10. Because when they strike it can be that quick that if they're within range, you're dead, you're dead in your tracks. And his head weighs more than my body so it's WHACK!

Steve Irwin

#11. But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind.
So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.

Richard Llewellyn

#12. Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#13. There was nothing like having a dead husband return from the grave to ruin a fine spring morning.

Amanda Quick

#14. It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was actively killing himself, but not with the quick shot of a gun, but rather, with the slow tilt of the bottle.

Alex Morgan

#15. They smiled too much, were quick to compliment and support, but behind the stretched lips and soft words was a judgment. No one was ever good enough - at least not until they were dead. The dead were exemplary.

Michael J. Sullivan

#16. Ravens were omnivores and ate an array of tidbits including insects, seeds, berries, meat, and carrion, the dead flesh of animals, which made her cringe.

Lauren Quick

#17. The writer who cares about usage must always know the quick from the dead.

William Zinsser

#18. In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

John C. Maxwell

#20. We are quick to surrender that which we deem as long dead, when God is quick to restore that which He deems as never really having lived.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#21. Waiting for something or somebody for hours, for days and even for years is a common human behavior. Take the word 'waiting' out of your dictionary! Move! Act! These are the words and the behaviors you need! The dead can wait for, but the quick must not!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#22. For my Vienna is as different from what they call Vienna now as the quick is different from the dead.

Erich Von Stroheim

#23. It's so quiet in my room that I wonder if this is what being dead sounds like.

Matthew Quick

#24. Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver.

Sophocles

#25. The dirty red light was flashing. Over and over through the window. SEX! LIVE! SEX! LIVE! She was only eight, but her mind was quick. She wondered if people would pay to see dead sex.

J.D. Robb

#26. Clausewitz, a dead Prussian, and Norman Angell, a living if misunderstood professor, had combined to fasten the short-war concept upon the European mind. Quick, decisive victory was the German orthodoxy;

Barbara W. Tuchman

#27. Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

Buffalo Bill

#28. Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

Vladimir Nabokov

#29. I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.

Francis Marion Crawford

#30. I learned the tricks ... If you want to do academic things, you can do them. It is not difficult. Yet it is from this difficulty - the mistakes and dead ends - that artists develop, not through the quick solutions and not from something you learn and apply.

Isamu Noguchi

#31. In my sport, the quick are too often listed among the dead

Jackie Stewart

#32. I had the best sex of my life with a girl I had thought was way out of my league and in love with my dead brother. Yeah, Nash was probably right, if anybody could put up with all the crazy I was rocking I should probably lock her in quick because even I could see how seriously screwed up I am.

Jay Crownover

#33. You'll never get dressed as quick as when you wake up next to a naked dead chick

Ron Bennington

#34. The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that it's not what's in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. It's not even what's in your mind. Corny as it sounds, it's what's in your heart.

Laurence Gonzales

#35. In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.

Damian Wampler

#36. If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick - dead!

Stephen E. Ambrose

#37. If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock.

Dudley North

#38. So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.

Geraldine Brooks