I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker who was such a warm friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well they'll say 'God he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you they'll follow you to the death.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The day of my birth my death began its walk. It is walking toward me without hurrying.

After the writer's death reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Inactivity is death.

I was court-martial in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Death comes in a flash and that's the truth of it the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

O Death rock me asleep bring me to quiet rest let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.

I have no fear of death. More important I don't fear life.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death the real and the imagined past and future the communicable and the incommunicable high and low cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

The kids out there want something they can relate to something that's real most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is at the end of the day the most compelling persuasive and winning argument against a death penalty.

Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory or we will be martyrs.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage or my house when I propose to take a residence so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

I'll keep peace at all cost even if I choke to death on my tongue.