Joanna Lumley Quotes

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

Joanna Lumley

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• It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Live
  • Die
  • Nothing

• I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Die
  • Never
  • Seen

• Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Time
  • Me
  • Die

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• I don't die in anything!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Die
  • Anything

• I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Personal records are not what football is all about, but as goalscorers, we live and die by figures and numbers because, ultimately, that's how people will judge you.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Live
  • Die

• 'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Die
  • Would
  • Carousel

• People need to take a breath and remember that it's only fashion. Relax. No one's going to die.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • People
  • Remember
  • Die

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Life
  • Die
  • Never

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

• There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Die
  • Comedy
  • Fans

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Die
  • Secret
  • Recipe

• The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Trying
  • Parents
  • Stop

• Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Up
  • Music
  • You

• Listen:The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. 'Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?' she asked me.'The big show is inside my head,' I said

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • She
  • Light
  • Dark

• And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring, And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar, And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fire
  • Moon
  • Spring

• A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Always

• Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.

  

  Plutarch
  • Life
  • Men
  • Long

• If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Die