Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lauren Bacall

I was this kid, and I was scared to death of all these pros around me... My head would shake, and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene.

Neal Katyal

Here, the president seeks not merely to detain temporarily but to dispense life imprisonment and death through a judicial system of his own design.

Kara Swisher

It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.

Kit Williams

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.

Rebecca West

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

Tryon Edwards

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Rick Riordan

Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies

Richard Crashaw

And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away.

Raymond Chandler

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Richard Paul Evans

Some so fear the future that they suffocate the present. It's like committing suicide to avoid being murdered.

Woodrow Wilson

Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

Robert Quine

I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.

Sara Teasdale

I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful when rain bends down the bough; And I shall be more silent and cold hearted than you are now.

Wallace Stevens

Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood.

Vladimir Lenin

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause, to help the class enemy. We do not desire to end in suicide, so we will not do this.

Walter Benjamin

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Walker Percy

They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

Walker Percy

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Romola Garai

I have a very strong, probably slightly aggressive personality, and so that just ends up coming out regardless of what I try to do.

Ron Chernow

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Roger Kahn

Carl Furillo was pure ballplayer. In his prime he stood six feet tall and weighed 190 pounds and there was a fluidity to his frame you seldom see, among such sinews. His black hair was thick, and tightly curled. His face was strong and smooth. He had the look of a young indomitable centurion ... I cannot imagine Carl Furillo in his prime as anything other than a ballplayer. Right field in Brooklyn was his destiny.