I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself.
My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
In the event of the death of a current or former President, like the recent death of President Ronald Reagan, the flag should be flown at half-staff for thirty days from the day of the death.
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
When Joy Division started, I was scared to death of having to get a normal day job.
The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.
There's a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition. What you have to watch out for is you don't write a boring story about a boring place.
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
The American people know that every day 3,000 kids begin to smoke, 1,000 of them die an early death. They're not going to allow us to go forward this year and not have comprehensive bipartisan legislation. It's in everybody's best interest.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
An answer is always a form of death.
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
Death is not my best subject.
Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death.
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the curtain going up frightens me more.
My father had several strokes and heart attacks. I was with him when he died, and it was a horrible death. He had been a very articulate man, and to lose that, never to be able to speak properly and to be unable to move - he had always been a very vigorous man, so to be in a wheelchair and mumbling - was terrible.
Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.
I have my very own Oscar now to be with me until death us do part.
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
Death is the final wake-up call.
