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A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk. -- James Joyce
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes. -- Helena Bonham Carter
It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Of course I think it's a movie for everybody [Insane Farting Corpse], but that's probably just because it's a movie for me. -- Paul Dano
What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down. -- James Joyce
A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present. -- William De Morgan
With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical. -- John August
It's a really hard movie [Insane Farting Corpse] to do a Q&A for, as well. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, "I don't know what to ask." -- Daniel Radcliffe
In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! -- Poppy Z. Brite
Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen. -- Paul Dano
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He would make a lovely corpse. -- Charles Dickens
Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo. -- Ed Westwick
One can't carry one's father's corpse about everywhere. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. -- Epictetus
Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse. -- John Derek
When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse. -- Sophocles
That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. -- James M. Barrie
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. -- Winston Churchill
Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have. -- David Bowie
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening. -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. -- Alexander Herzen
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning. -- Aleister Crowley
Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable and uninhabited like the moon, which has long since lost all its vital heat. -- Jules Verne
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost. -- Fernando Pessoa
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket. -- Shirley Manson
On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die. -- Taylor Swift
We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive. -- Ariel Pink
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost. -- Richard Lamm
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. -- Raoul Vaneigem
What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality. -- Helena Bonham Carter
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse. -- Mario Puzo
I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient. -- Duane Michals
Gold is the corpse of value... -- Neal Stephenson
Under each formula lies a corpse. -- Emile M. Cioran
A dead martyr is just another corpse. -- Leo Gordon
An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse. -- Russell D. Moore
Karate without heart is just A corpse -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
I want to be a pretty corpse. -- Eva Braun
The drunken man is a living corpse. -- Saint John Chrysostom
There is nothing more dignified than a corpse. -- Evan Esar
The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse. -- David S.E. Zapanta
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming. -- William Hazlitt
Pain lays not its touch upon a corpse. -- Aeschylus
In my defense, the corpse was entirely unexpected. -- Mira Grant
A person without regrets is called a corpse. -- Lois Greiman
We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty -- Benito Mussolini
Yes, I'm married, but I'm not a corpse. -- P. C. Cast
Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse. -- Marcus Aurelius
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse. -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse. -- James Dean
Orthodoxy is a corpse that doesn't know it's dead. -- Elbert Hubbard
A corpse is what's left after waking too often. -- Cesare Pavese
One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars? -- Jeaniene Frost
No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse. -- James Joyce
Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty. -- Koushun Takami
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, -- S. S. Van Dine
When we kill our desires we stink like any corpse. -- Harold Norse
If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out! -- Mark Twain
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously. -- Oliver Goldsmith
We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Lighting does occasionally strike and occasional the result isn't a corpse. -- Tillie Olsen
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse. -- Henry James
I was almost put out of business by a well-meaning corpse. -- W. C. Fields
One corpse in a well destroys the viability of the well. -- Eric Reeves
What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse? -- Malcolm Lowry
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong? -- Manuel Azana
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong? -- Manuel Azana
He who protests is an enemy; he who opposes is a corpse. -- Pol Pot
Still alive? (Randy) No. I'm a walking corpse. Can't you tell? (Steele) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. -- Elie Wiesel
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse. -- Charles Spurgeon
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? -- Fernando Pessoa
God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse. -- Ellen Hopkins
When you're 18, 19, you want to live fast and leave a beautiful corpse behind. -- Shane Smith
I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse? -- Emo Philips
It's easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse. -- Michael L. Brown
As the saying goes, I want to be the best-looking corpse there is. -- Janice Dickinson
When you look at a corpse you can always sense your own breath better. -- Zona Gale
A corpse boasted of being pain and trouble free. No one envied his lot. -- Marty Rubin
Czech beer in bottles is the corpse of real beer in a glass coffin. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
Your words are teeth. And they eat me alive. Feed on my corpse instead. -- Gail Giles
You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say. -- Marcus Aurelius
There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse. -- Susan Dennard
Sorry, but the whole walking corpse epiphany kind of threw me off my game. -- Rachel Vincent
It would be a sad error in judgement to mistake me for a corpse. -- Kane
I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40. -- Roy Bean
There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life. -- Chet Williamson
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Before this war is over, I intend to be a Major General or a corpse. -- Isaac R. Trimble
I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. -- Orhan Pamuk
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead. -- John Stott
I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. -- Michael Stipe
Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Rien n'est plus parfait, plus acheve qu'un cadavre. Nothing is more perfect, more complete than a corpse. -- Boris Vian
Layin niggas so flat, homies think you plankin', Only realize you dead when the corpse start stankin'. -- Ras Kass
Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense. -- John Galsworthy
The government increasingly resembles somebody who is trying to give the kiss of life to a corpse. -- Vince Cable
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse. -- P. G. Wodehouse
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. -- S. S. Van Dine
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. -- James M. Barrie
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. -- Stephen King
If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. -- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny. -- Mamur Mustapha
The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The decay of society is praised by artists as the decay of a corpse is praised by worms. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned. -- Kris Carr
The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse. -- Charles Williams
I had just settled Grandma on her folding chair and popped open our box lunch when the corpse floated by. -- Thomas McGuane
If you want to live your whole life free from pain,you must either be a god or a corpse. -- Steve Berry
Give me an opportunity to fail," Saiman said. "I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech. -- Ilona Andrews
No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning... -- Jen Lancaster
I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it. -- David Giuntoli
But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption. -- Cal Thomas
There was no better path to autonomy for an ambitious young businesswoman than to be married off to a respectable corpse. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
The idea of Dumbledore's corpse frightened Harry much less than the possibility that he might have misunderstood the living Dumbledore's intentions. -- J. K. Rowling

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