Kiss Of Death Quotes

• If you do anything for too long, it starts to lack edge, to become too easy. Easy is the kiss of death.

  Julia Ormond

  Kissing, Long, Easy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Honey, New Moon, Juliet

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.374

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• The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing?

  Ruth Gordon

  Mean, Kissing, Actresses

  Ruth Gordon (1949). “The Leading Lady: Play in Three Acts”

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• Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

  Ernesto Sirolli

  Motivation, Inspiration, Kissing

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• Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

  Conway Twitty

  Kissing, Fads

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• NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

  Rob Zombie

  Running, Mean, Kissing

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• But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

  Brian Lumley

  Kissing, Too Much, Found

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• To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

  Eugenia Sheppard

  Fashion, Kissing, Salt

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• To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

  Thomas Jane

  Character, Kissing, Actors

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• Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

  Suzy Kassem

  Ignorance, Kissing, Bliss

  "Rise Up and Salute the Sun". Book by Suzy Kassem, 2010.

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• Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy. Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

  Peter Drucker

  Kissing, Planning, Entrepreneurship

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• Fruits fail and love dies and time ranges;Thou art fed with perpetual breath, and alive after infinite changes,And fresh from the kisses of death,Of langours rekindled and rallied, Of barren delights and unclean,Things monstrous and fruitless, a pallidAnd poisonous queen.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Art, Queens, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Laus Veneris: And Other Poems and Ballads”, p.174

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• Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

  Joan Rivers

  Kissing, Complacency, Form

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• You can't please everyone and trying to do so is the kiss of death.

  Criss Angel

  Kissing, Trying, Please

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• You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

  Criss Angel

  Kissing, Trying, Care

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• Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Kissing, Rights, Iran

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What about e-mail? It is e-mail, yes?" Morley asked, leaning even closer. "E-mail is a kind of electronic letter. It travels through the air." He seemed very smug that he knew that. "Well, not exactly, and would you please either BACK OFF or go find a shower?

  Rachel Caine

  Air, Letters, Mail

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• You know what's funny to me? You know what's really funny to me? The fact that you've been calling Lita the walking kiss of death, but tonight.. the walking KOD beat the walking STD.

  Chris Jericho

  Kissing, Wwe, Tonight

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• I'd rather an audience like me than dislike me, but I'd rather they disliked me than be apathetic, because that is the kiss of death.

  Martha Graham

  Kissing, Dislike Me, Apathetic

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world.

  Joni Mitchell

  Kids, Kissing, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in "Kiss of Death") or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it's much more fun to play something you're not than it is to play something you are.

  Clint Eastwood

  Fun, Kissing, Play

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• The absolute worst thing a person can say about your pictures is, '"That's nice." It's the kiss of death.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Nice, Kissing, Worst

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• The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic changes in our environment is the shift from words to images. To do church in a way that is entirely text driven is the kiss of death.

  Erwin McManus

  Kissing, Irrelevance, Church

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2013). “An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind”, p.23, David C Cook

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• I don't think an NC-17 rating is the kiss of death. Nor do I think that, in the hands of the right filmmakers, studios have a preconceived notion to pass on NC-17 material.

  Steve Tisch

  Kissing, Thinking, Hands

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• Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.

  Tony Bishop

  Home, Kissing, Fishing

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