Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexei Sayle

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.

If you want a studio to back you, you want to be doing something that's been done to death!

Tom Bosley

So we had life, death, illness, everything - every emotional involvement we had, we experienced. And I think that made what we had to do on stage, stronger. We got very much involved in what we were doing.

Alexander the Great

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

Alexander Smith

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

Alexander Smith

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

Alexander Smith

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

We definitely deserved punishment. We didn't deserve what was essentially the death penalty.

Tony Benn

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

Cedric Richmond

I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

Glenn Hoddle

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off.

Stephane Hessel

Death is something to savour, and I hope to savour mine.

Bill Hicks

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

Barry Trotz

You make one mistake, and they have you on death row.

They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Matthew Pearl

When Dickens arrives in the United States in November of 1867, he's already in questionable health. So by the end of the trip, he was really in failing condition, and really, he would never recover completely after this point, and you could sort of draw a straight line to his ultimate decline and death.

Benjamin Franklin

When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell,/ If we were Wax, or Tallow by the Smell./ At a great Pennyworth, pause a while.

William Gurnall

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.

Nicole Mones

You can't portray wartime Shanghai without writing about the Holocaust - about 25,000 Jews survived the Nazi death machine by taking refuge there.

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

Bob Hill

We got off to such a great start and I was scared to death of that. Because when you score that easy, you're not going to score that easy the whole game.

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

Lynda Barry

When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

Laura Linney

The thing about death is that it's honest.