And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he’s a fool.
Once the amateur’s naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life – when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
You have a dream 35 years ago – doesn’t come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it’s somewhere back there. Then you turn 60, and your mom just dies, and you’re looking for something. And the dream comes waking out of your imagination.
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
If it doesn’t start with you, it dies with you.
All men die. You may say: ‘Is that encouraging?’ Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what’s going to happen to a guy like me when it’s over? What happens when the show dies in maybe five years? Do I die too? No! I want to go on with other things.
Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.
When you win or lose, no-one dies: you win, or you lose.
The beauty of man’s being, fashioned as he is in the fairest of forms, demonstrates the existence of the Maker, while at the same time the fact that, together with his comprehensive abilities, lodged in that fairest of forms, he soon declines and dies, demonstrates the existence of the resurrection.
In ‘Maad Dad,’ I play Lal’s wife, who dies quite young. I’ve gone completely retro to fit into the role of his traditional wife.
When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.
You feel a lot of rage when someone dies. I have a lot of faith in nature, but it can be cruel.
For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
A man is just as dead if he dies of malnutrition as of bullets.
There are worlds and more worlds below them, and there are a hundred thousand skies over them. No one has been able to find the limits and boundaries of God. If there be any account of God, then alone the mortal can write the same; but God’s account does not finish, and the mortal himself dies while still writing.
I would say ‘American Werewolf in London’ is like an unconventional buddy movie: even if the buddy dies 20 minutes in, he still remains throughout the picture, and their partnership is one of the best things in the movie.
I wonder: when a Jehovah’s Witness dies and goes to Heaven, does God hide behind the door and pretend He’s not home?
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: ‘Oh man, I’m an orphan.’ There’s also this relief: It’s done; it’s finished; it’s over.
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Once a star dies, it’s gone forever. There are no new stars to take its place. Eventually, there will be no stars, and the universe will turn black. That really will be the end.
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
Every second minute, a woman or a girl dies in the world due to pregnancy.
When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
What helps with aging is serious cognition – thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you’re here?
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
I wanted to write a book about two women falling in love that wasn’t hinged on tragedy or that involved some horrible identity-based misfortune. I wanted to write a pretty standard romantic comedy where nobody dies, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets sick.
To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
There’s sadness to anyone that dies before their time, and specifically ones that seem to affect people in a positive way. It doesn’t matter if it’s Whitney Houston or a nameless, faceless person on the street. That’s just as big of a tragedy for me.
Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He’s been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly was – genius is an overused word – but he clearly did have something of the genius about him.
If I am not playing the villain then I’ll play the friend, or the brother who dies in the third reel.
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can express love. People always turn to poetry when someone they love dies, when they fall in love.
Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero’s not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes – and no stakes, then you don’t care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
You know how Bette Midler always says her obituary will read, ‘Bette Midler dies. Started her career at the Continental Baths?’ Mine will say ‘Chris March died. He was on Season 4 of ‘Project Runway.” It’s an amazing show, it did a lot for me, and I’m fine with it. Unless it becomes terribly disreputable.
The competitive spirit never dies.
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.
The joy that isn’t shared dies young.
When you put a top on something and try to bottle it, that’s when it dies.
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
It’s really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, ’cause it’s very shocking… surreal.
Maternal health remains a staggering challenge, particularly in the developing world. Globally, a woman dies from complications in childbirth every minute.
The band is a living, breathing thing. It grows in the same way we do as human beings and if it doesn’t, it dies. It’s important to feed the organism, and one way of doing that is to set musical challenges that keep it alive.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
When you are a politician, it means to work for the benefit of the country, not to stay home. In politics, it ends only when one dies.
I thought Kim Jong Il was a god who could read my mind. I thought his spirit never dies, and I never thought he was a normal human being.
If I die, I know the news item would be, ‘Partner of Ricky Gervais and novelist dies.’ That would come first. But I’ve come to terms with it. As long as they do still add the ‘and novelist,’ that will be fine.
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
