With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.
I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.
I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
My grandparents had died in 1983, and suddenly my brother is out jogging before Mass, and he dies.
Everything that gets born dies.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Traditionally the show must go on which is a stupid thing to say, but that in a nutshell is what's going on. We have a new record out; if we won't tour, the new record dies. It's reality - it's what business is nowadays. You just need to tour to sell your albums.
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.
Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop.
I collect art. I just recently bought two gorgeous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by international photographer Eve Arnold and I know it sounds horrible but when she dies all her pictures are going to be worth triple. But I won't tell you how much I got them for - let's just say it was a lot.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
A good story never dies.
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits.
If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.
To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going.
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
No matter how many times it happens, the public always seems to be shocked when an athlete dies young, but the reality is, there are no promises.
When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.