Then I decided I couldn’t just crawl in the corner and die, so I started putting pen to paper and wrote some songs. I had no idea what for or who I was going to work with. I tried to find my way and direction. – Glenn Tipton
As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they’re going there. – Howard Dean
I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I’ve got to sell my wares or die – I’ve always been protected from that. – Harriet Walter
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. – George Bernard Shaw
Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined – about 100,000. – Janine Benyus
Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it. – Jello Biafra
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can’t breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution. – Joe Biden
Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head. – Justin Timberlake
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber
Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on. – Hanoi Hannah
The applause of his native land is the richest reward to which the patriot ever aspires. It is this for which ‘he bears to live or dares to die.’ It is the high incentive to those achievements which illustrate the page of history and give to poetry its brightest charm. – John Tyler
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high. – Jimi Hendrix
The families of many athletes – incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall – are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves. – Jeffrey Kluger
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. – Johnny Carson
Books don’t live and die by awards. You don’t listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards. – Junot Diaz
There’s a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I’ll not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – I’ll be needing that to die in. – Helen Hayes
I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die. – James Taylor
You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. – Joan Baez
Now here I am playing a passionate young Irishman who would die for what he believes in. – James D’arcy