If you are killed because you are a writer that's the maximum expression of respect you know.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

You see I had been riding with the storm clouds and had come to earth as rain and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed for instance is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Comedy is like music and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

The problem for me still today is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.

Four men are missing R. Sorel and two emigrants. They set out this morning after buffalo and have not yet made their appearance whether killed or lost we cannot tell.

These people are very unskilled in arms... with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.

During a trip to Iraq last fall I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

The people and the mindset that killed 3 000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001 would have killed not 3 0 but 300 000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

Mr. Speaker we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11 and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth he threatens our life with his lies.

While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.

However many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.