WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD - Shannon Hale Toby Keith writes songs like 1993's "Should've Been a Cowboy," and what's compelling is that you can't deconstruct its message. "Should've Been a Cowboy" is not like Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," where Jon Bon Jovi claimed to live like a cowboy; Toby Keith wants to be a cowboy for real. - Chuck Klosterman

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. - Thornton Wilder The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. - Thornton Wilder

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. - Thomas R Dewar The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home. - J R Ward End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home. - J R Ward

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. - Edward Abbey Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone. - Mark Twain When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. - Jack Henry Abbott A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew. - Aberjhani Everytime you read, you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. - Kathy Acker Time. In another time. Either before or after. Th...

There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead. - Thomas R Dewar The quick and the dead are all the same. Everyone's just looking for home. - J R Ward End of the day, the quick and the dead are the same. Everyone's just looking for a home. - J R Ward

I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all the fat stores from my butt now. Yeah. See, having a big ass is a good thing. Good, good, good. They should put that in magazines. Why diet? Why stay thin? If you ever get kidnapped and left for dead, your fat ass could save your life! - Kate Brian if you're a teenaged babysitter caring for a mute toddler in a remote Maine cabin during a once-in-a-century blizzard while and escaped killers (bearing a strange resemblance to the handicapped boy you and your friends bulled of an embankment and left for dead all those years ago) roams the woods, you're probably in a horror movie. - Seth Grahame Smith

I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books. - Louisa May Alcott I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday. - Louisa May Alcott I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books. - Louisa May Alcott I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books. - Louisa May Alcott I'm out of health potions. Retreat! Retreat! Give me some of your health potions!" I screamed. "I don't have any potions. Run, bitch, run," Brody squealed. The red ran out on my health and my assassin was transported, stripped of everything we'd earne...

He smiles in my memory. A curled lip. Straight teeth. Light in his eyes. Laughing, teasing, more alive in memory than I m in reality. It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too. - Veronica Roth It was him or me. I chose me. But I feel dead too. - Veronica Roth

To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead. - Cassandra Clare Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead. - Ernest Hemingway Now that I am dead, I know everything. - Margaret Atwood I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one. - Lucille Ball When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. - Hilaire Belloc Thus I die. Thus, thus, thus. Now I am dead, Now I am fled, My soul is in the sky. Tongue, lose thy light. Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die. - William Shakespeare No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then would make you woe. - William Shakespe...

They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don't deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it's not the same as a proper good-bye. - Ann Aguirre We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring. - Clive Barker For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. - E M Forster Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead. - Omar N Bradley This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you. - Orson Scott Card I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don...

We had people fainting during the last tour, but I'm aiming for people to actually drop dead at this one. - Emilie Autumn If you don't live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can't eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that's why he don't let me near them fresh dead. (Simi) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. - Ray Bradbury Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream mad...

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. - Gustave Flaubert The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls. - Irvine Welsh

Yes, but not my style of woman: I like a woman who lays herself out a little more to please us. There should be a little filigree about a woman--something of the coquette. A man likes a sort of challenge. The more of a dead set she makes at you the better. - George Eliot I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball. - George Steinbrenner I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges. - Richard Russo

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back. - Richard Adams One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive? - Margaret Atwood In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. - Dave Barry When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply...

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual's own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed. - Hannah Arendt Dead or alive, the balls still hurt when kicked, huh? (Zarek) - Sherrilyn Kenyon What we had went so much deeper than a kiss. When we were together, she turned me completely inside out. It didn't matter if we were dead or alive. We could never be kept apart. There were some things more powerful than worlds or universes. She was my world, as much as I was hers. What we had, we knew. The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. Anybody who's ever been in love can tell you that. - Kami Garcia We've thrown out Saddam...

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead insidewalking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know. - Laurie Halse Anderson I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside. - Francesca Lia Block I was dead inside. - Lorraine Bracco Yes, fine, I say, feeling dead inside. They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea who isn't really here. - Libba Bray Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves. - George Or...

You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that. - Kinky Friedman If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time. - Linda Ellerbee Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. - W C Fields The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow. - Jim Hightower You can be the dead fish. I'll be the old stick - Robin Hobb I think it would be funny to dye somebody's pool red and then throw dead fish in it. And before you run out of there, you could leave a stone tablet with these words etched in: God is angry with you and has decided to go all Egypt on you. - Jarod Kintz How unlike a dead fish a live fish is. - Maxine Hong Kingston In a calm, clear voice, she suggested that the wyrsa in question could do several highly improbable, athleticall...

When I got there it was all still and Sunday-like, and hot and sunshiny - the hands was gone to the fields; and there was them kind of faint dronings of bugs an flies in the air that makes it seem so lonesome and like everybody's dead and gone; and if a breeze fans along and quivers the leaves, it makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it's spirits whispering - spirits that's been dead ever so many years - and you always think they're talking about you. - Mark Twain Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. - Gerry Adams Are you mad? (Artemis) Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron) - Sherrilyn Kenyon Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade...