This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life.
I don't think death is a negative thing at all. I think it can be very positive.
I didn't get to go to prom; I was filming a death scene on my prom night. But I got to go to all the homecomings, and even the winter formals I got to go to, but the only thing I missed was the prom, but everything else was great.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
The real kiss of death - particularly with my father - is the extraordinary popularity of his work.
It was the '50s, and the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal System were in fashion. I hung out in the 812 section - American theater and plays. This is where I first read Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' and was transfixed. I remember staring into space for what seemed an eternity after reading Linda Loman's final speech.
We will never conquer death.
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
An evil life is a kind of death.
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
The supernatural world, the sci-fi world - they give you scenarios that can truly be life or death.
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.
I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something.
Vulgar and common persons, as they carry nothing out of this world, so they leave nothing in it: they receive no eminency in their birth, they acquire none in their life, they have none when they die, they leave none at their death.
We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.
Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
