Sudden Death Playoff

Famous quotes containing the words sudden death, sudden and/or death:

“Before my face it lays down my despairs,
And hastes me on unto a sudden death,”
—Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

“Giant whispering and coughing from
Vast Sunday-full and organ-frowned-on spaces
Precede a sudden scuttle on the drum....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)