“I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.” DeathDiesSawsFoodThousandEatingHundredHungerNutritionPoor Richard Author:Benjamin Franklin
“I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.” WorldYearsMatterDiesGamesSuccessfulSawsGroupsRapConquerRapperConquer The World Author:Ja Rule
“Then I saw it. I saw a mom who would die for her son. A man who would kill for his wife. A boy, angry and alone. Laid out in front of him, the bad path. I saw it. And the path was a circle. Round and round. So I changed it.” MenDiesBoysPathSawsWifeFrontsChangedSonMomAngryRoundsCircles Author:Rian Johnson
“Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.” MotherDiesFatherParentSawsAffairLos AngelesSixtyFlewGreat LoveMessed Up Author:Saffron Aldridge
“When you saw the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," that was Michael [Jackson]'s story write large. Born as an elderly person, Benjamin Button was, in the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel and in the film starring Brad Pitt, he dies as a newborn child. Michael Jackson's childhood was one of enormous, prodigious production.He was a child prodigy, he was a wunderkind.” WritingChildrenPersonsStoriesFilmDiesBornCasesNovelSawsChildhoodProductionsEnormousCuriousButtonsElderlyNewbornBradProdigiesProdigiousScott FitzgeraldNewborn ChildBenjamin Button Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.” YearsStatesPhilosophyNightDiesSawsFeetSticksBridgesMarchStationsBusNonviolenceBeatenMontgomeryGreyhoundsGreyhound Bus Author:John Lewis
“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.” WayWritingLooksHeartDoeMightMovingPoetryDiesSecretSawsFlowerTerribleBeatsScreensOpeningPoetry IsVividClosingHeart BeatWhat Is Poetry Author:Elizabeth Smart
“I loved dancing with a delirious 'I wish I could die' passion, especially when the music appealed to me ... but alas! only one in ten partners had any notion of time, and what made it worse, the nine were always behind, never before the beat. ... Sometimes I would firmly seize smaller, lighter partners by the scruff of the neck, so to speak, and whirl them along in the way they should go, but I saw they were not enjoying themselves, and oddly enough I wanted these wretches to like dancing with me.” WayShouldMadeSometimesEnoughWantedDiesPassionSpeakWishEnjoyBehindsSawsTenBeatsDancingDanceNotionPartnersNineMade ItNecksAlasLightersDelirious Author:Ethel Smyth
“I'm not Joe Paterno. Somebody didn't come and tell me Bernie Fine did something and I'm hiding it. I know nothing. If I saw some reason not to support Bernie, I would not support him. If somebody showed me a reason, proved that reason, I would not support him. But until then, I'll support him until the day I die.” IfsKnowsReasonDiesSupportSawsFineHiding Author:Jim Boeheim
“Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.” MeanDiesFallUnderstandingBreakGoneForeverSawsEmptyEssenceFundamentalsSoloCliffsParadigm Author:Dean Potter