• The life I've lived happen to be more profoundly curious than my work. Then sometimes, when I think about it, I'd prefer everything about my life to blow up after I die and disappear.
  Francis Bacon
• You are born, you fuck, you die. What could be more violent than that?
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• Flesh and meat are life! If I paint red meat as I paint bodies it is just because I find it very beautiful. I don’t think anyone has ever really understood that. Ham, pigs, tongues, sides of beef seen in the butcher’s window, all that death, I find it very beautiful. And it’s all for sale—how unbelievably surrealistic!
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later. That’s like life: it is so precious because death is always beckoning.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• Once we get comfortable as a company, I like to push the boat out again. My wife keeps saying, "Why? Why? You're fifty. Take it easy. Let's enjoy it." But I'm in a fairly unique position. Yesterday, the first of nine hundred new trains arrived in the UK and went into service. We are going to transform Britain's rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you've lived a good life. If I put all my money in the bank and drink myself to death in the Caribbean, I just think that would be a waste of the fantastic position I've found myself in.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• Quality brands never go bankrupt. You won't see JetBlue go bankrupt, or Southwest. The American airline industry, unlike almost any other American industry, has never taken quality on board.... The public cares, but airlines act like they don't. Airlines never really go bust. They screw their creditors. They screw their shareholders. You don't get rid of the dead wood. The inefficient airline lives on. In England, you're either alive or you're dead. And, when you're dead, young, efficient new airlines can rise up. How many hospitals could have been built with the money that has been shoveled into inefficient airlines? How many oil refineries? Probably as many as we need.
  Richard Branson Quotes
• The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
  Andrew Carnegie Quotes
• I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
  George Clooney Quotes
• I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• I don't know how often—but I'm continually saying, "I'm a professional" and "I've been doing this since I was born." I was born into it, and my apprenticeship's been 38 years, and I seem to be going on and on about that. I'm doing it all the time in the field, and it's John's [John Stainton, Steve's producer] job to edit it up and make sure that it's a happy medium of how often it's said or when it's said—because what I'm doing is more dangerous than a stick of dynamite. You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny.
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• There's something about death that is comforting, the thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
  Angelina Jolie Quotes
• I was overtired and working myself to death. When you're young, you think you can just keep going and going.
  Lindsay Lohan Quotes
• I cried a lot this year, both in happiness and sadness. I cried with happiness over the exciting things happening in my career. My divorce. In a divorce, no matter the relationship, it's still the death of something. And you have to mourn it. You have to go through it, or else it's unresolved. And then you're like, "Coulda, shoulda, woulda?" And I like to say, "I'm going to mourn over it, and it's never going to come back." Then you move on.
  Eva Longoria Quotes
• There's two things you should know about me. One, I'm a gambler and usually very lucky and two, I don't die easy.
  Kerry Packer Quotes
• Let us be the ones who say we do not accept that a child dies every three seconds simply because he does not have the drugs you and I have. Let us be the ones to say we are not satisfied that your place of birth determines your right to life. Let us be outraged, let us be loud, let us be bold.
  Brad Pitt Quotes
• You paint the fucking thing. You are killing me! You are killing me! You are killing me!
  Jackson Pollock Quotes
• I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing.
  Andy Warhol Quotes
• Maybe I was lacking some kind of support and needed to be accepted or appreciated. My father had not only left the family, but he'd died, so perhaps as a child I felt doubly abandoned.
  Naomi Watts Quotes
• Don’t just show pictures of starving children. That’s not all there is. I saw people struggling to survive and making it. I saw families holding together. I saw kindness and beauty, not just bombing and death. I heard beautiful stories, but that’s not what the media shows us. I want to go back live there again some day. It’s a beautiful country and it has an amazing culture and history. If you are going to tell a story, tell the whole story.
  Alek Wek Quotes
• It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it." - about how a lot of his characters end up dying.
  Owen Wilson Quotes
• Art is the thrilling spark that beats death – that's all.
  Brett Whiteley Quotes