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.

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

G. H. Hardy

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

It is not death that alarms me, but dying.

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.

Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!

S. Jay Olshansky

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

P. J. O'Rourke

I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.

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

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.

William S. Burroughs

No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

William Jennings Bryan

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

Woody Allen

Death is an acquired trait.

Woody Allen

Marriage is the death of hope.

Woody Allen

Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses.

Woody Allen

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

William Wordsworth

No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

William Wordsworth

One of those heavenly days that cannot die.

William Wordsworth

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

William Wordsworth

Death is the quiet haven of us all.

William Shatner

I think you die the way you live.

Richard Burton

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Tupac Shakur

My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears.

Tupac Shakur

Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

Tupac Shakur

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

Tupac Shakur

I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?

Tupac Shakur

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case...

Tupac Shakur

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

Tori Amos

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.