“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.”
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“I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.”
“I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!”
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
“We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.”
“Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.”
“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 d--n lie!”
“Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.”
“I mean, Sting is one of my great buddies and I love him to death.”
“But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.”
“There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.”
“So we mustn't lower our guard in any sense because of what has happened in terms of the death of Osama Bin Laden and we are certainly not doing that. The terror threat level here in the U.K. remains at severe and we're very conscious of the need to continue that.”
“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”
“If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.”
“Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.”
“I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.”
“I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.”
“War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.”
“I am against the death penalty.”
“My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.”
“The need to understand prescription information can literally be a matter of life and death.”
“Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.”
“To awake from death is to die in peace.”
“Death is feared as birth is forgotten.”