Making music on TV used to be as common as commercials. In the '60s and '70s, prime time was stuffed with variety shows headlined by such major and treasured talents as Carol Burnett, Red Skelton, the Smothers Brothers and Richard Pryor, who had a very brief comedy-variety hour on NBC that was censored literally to death.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced, and overrun with money from corporations and billionaires, a wounded republic is on its death bed, gasping for life.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.
Death does not exist.
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
I think of these things as obstacles rather than opportunities, because if they were opportunities it means I actually took the business of doing them seriously. To take myself too seriously is the gentle kiss of death.
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!
Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.
But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
The news of any politician's death should be listed under 'Public Improvements.'
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
I am not a proponent of the death penalty, but I will enforce the law as this Congress gives it to us.
Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.
