It's necessary to start most work alone. But I'm tickled to death when I can pull somebody in or join someone, whether it's borrowing poetry or traveling with an associate. Jenny Holzer associateborrowdeath Change image and share on social
How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it! Hortense Odlum bewilderdeathface Change image and share on social
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. Thomas Frank 1970s1980sbusiness share on social
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater. Helena Bonham Carter bellatrixbitedeath Change image and share on social
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. Horatio Nelson characterdeathdisgrace Change image and share on social
Bedouin ways were hard even for those brought up to them, and for strangers, terrible: a death in life. T. E. Lawrence bedouinbringdeath Change image and share on social
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say. Michael Leunig abandonbrickconsole share on social
TV networks are dying. The death throes of religion give us jihads. The death throes of television give us reality shows. Penn Jillette deathdiegive Change image and share on social
You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. Philippe Petit activityboundaryclose Change image and share on social
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes, eyes that had not opened for many, many days, and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love. Patti Davis allowalzheimerarm share on social