“A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.”
Marlene Dietrich
“And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]”
Oscar Wilde
“One day I was on my deathbed. The next day I was given a new lease on life.”
Chris Klug
“I wanted to be sure I was able to say on my deathbed, 'I did the best I could do for you,' ... I believe you have to balance your philanthropy. The arts, culture, education, are all very important, but in the long run those things won't mean a damn thing if we don't keep our environment healthy and thriving.”
Rutherford Seydel
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”
Winston Churchill
“One cannot say with certainty that whether beauty, strength or intelligence, is boon or bane, until one analyze that endowments on one’s deathbed.”
Dr Hitesh C Sheth
“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.”
Claude Monet
