Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry A. Blackmun

I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

Buddy Hackett

You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

G. Gordon Liddy

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Samuel Butler

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Samuel Butler

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Edmund Spenser

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

Fritz Lang

I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence.

Maurice Sendak

As a kid, all I thought about was death.

Kirk Hammett

For 'Death Magnetic,' I used what I always use, which is my standard touring rack, which is filled with some Boogie stuff and a Marshall that I've had forever.

Kirk Cameron

What can separate us from the love of God? Not life, not death, nothing in the present, nothing in the future. Not angels, not demons nothing is able to stand between us and his loving plans because you can't stop them.

Kate Atkinson

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

Karin Slaughter

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

James Salter

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

Billy Thornton

When I first met Louise, I was scared to death of her. I didn't want to say the wrong thing.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

overcome the difficulties they faced after the death of Gassingbe Eyadema.

Slobodan Milosevic

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.

Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.

Bill Gates

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

Heber J. Grant

My wife Lucy was very sick for nearly three years prior to her death. At one time, I was in the hospital with her for six months.

Long life to you, a wet mouth, and death in Ireland

John O. Brennan

I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.

I think there's some encouragement in what we've found in the initial sweeps that some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred.

Jimmy Greaves

Jimmy's death devastated my wife, Irene, and myself. It nearly drove us out of our minds,

Rod Steiger

I suppose because an actor's always scared to death that he's not going to do the part well that I didn't think of anything else.

Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening.

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.

Jason Chaffetz

I think what we're going to hear is that we didn't meet the basic, minimum standards required for a facility such as the one we had in Benghazi. And the request for more security personnel went unheeded, unanswered, and consequently, you know, you have the death of four Americans.