Grave Quotes

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

The danger of that - and there's a grave danger that I, myself, have to be very aware of - is that you become so involved and intrigued in the language that sometimes you lose track that that is only a means to an aesthetic experience that the listener has to get.

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.

I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

I believe that successfully addressing our national security needs while protecting our basic freedoms and civil liberties requires continual Congressional oversight, and I will continue to work to assert the role of this body in carrying out this grave responsibility.

Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.

Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

I remember in Shallow Grave I remember a few times when we'd only have to do one take. But when you did have to do more than one, you'd build on the one you'd done.

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things.