Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Charles Bradlaugh

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

Don Otto

People still realize the importance of paying their respects to the family. That's why funeral homes around here have big, nice visitation rooms.

Ramon Serna

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Eugene Kennedy

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Clive James

His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

Amy Poehler

We may all host ourselves to death, and if we're all dead who will host our funerals?

Beatrix Potter

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

Lauren Herring

When I was little, I used to feel a lot of pressure. Before matches, I'd want to throw up. But now, I've adapted. I do get homesick sometimes, but I have to remember why I am there and what I have to do to go pro.

Darrell Cameron

As we get older, we are wanting to stay in our homes longer.

Mike McCrary

A lot of older homes are on the market, and are not moving because people are not interested in fix-ups." ()

Carey Williams

A lot of starter homes are in neighborhoods where you wouldn't renovate. You would just move.

Paul Barnes

They are the ones that have no assurances and are reluctant to invest in their homes because they don't know what's going to happen.

Dave Kelly

You don't get homesick here, ... It's like living at home.

Wayne Butler

There were over 1,000 on Monday, and some homes had about 200.

Steve Wilson

There's a lot of distractions when people are trying to secure their homes and get home to safety.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Megan Quinn

Always our users' privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. This is a planning process.

Brian Hanna

This is a big milestone for Mountain View. The importance of this match in our minds was huge.

Richard Jefferson

It's not so much the type of shot he hit, but the importance of the shot.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

The relations with Russia are of key importance to our state,

Porter Goss

As a member right now on the Hill, I know the value of that and the importance of that,

Steve Carpenter

Safety does, however, remain to be of paramount importance on our campus.

Isaiah Stanback

I've come to understand the importance of practices and rehearsals.

Alan Rickman

You can act truthfully or you can lie. You can reveal things about yourself or you can hide. Therefore, the audience recognizes something about themselves or they don't -- You hope they don't leave the theatre thinking that was nice...now where's the cab?'

Alain Robert

Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.

Alan Alda

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Al Neuharth

Be as nice as possible and as nasty as necessary.

Chris Claremont

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I am aware that I have been incredibly fortunate in my life to work with the people that I have worked with and pursue the projects that I have been able to do. There are so many films that I have done that I really, as a film person, as a film fan, that I like. And that is a nice place to think of a career in.

Edward Gibbon

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Edward Gibbon

The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.

Dean Cain

Mix one part Denzel Washington and two parts Eva Mendes and you have a nice hot cocktail.

John Curry

We are getting ripped off. We are not getting what we are paying for.

E. B. White

I told him I would have too see about paying him, ... He told me not to worry about it.

Sean Quinn

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Brian O'Donnell

After all the work, now we'll see how it's paying off.

Robert Bernstein

Some people have a value that is worth paying for.

Michael Zenker

One could say the Spaniards are paying a price for U.S. hurricanes.

Brandon Phillips

It was trading at $13, they're paying $18. That's not bad.

Mark Cuban

That shows you how much I had been paying attention.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Charles Dickens

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

Charles Dickens

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

Charles Dickens

Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.

Charles Dickens

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Joey Harrington

It's just one game. We all realize that.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Mark Basham

They realize they have to be executing. It's not just about a Web site.

Bob Denver

It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air,

Clarence Curry

It's a business. I realized that after being through it for a year and a half. You don't get down. You never know when you can go to another team and be on their 53 (man roster).

Eric Roberts

the sun starts to come up and they don't even realize that it had set yet.

Jim Taylor

After Andrew, insurers realized the premiums they were charging weren't enough,

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Jami Attenberg

There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader.

Dick Pole

He won't do that. He respects the game. He wouldn't do that.

Eric Beder

I think that Oakley in some respects does all its stuff by itself,

Hank Haney

I'm not saying I teach Tiger Woods. We're old friends. He respects my views on the game, just as he respects other people's views.

David Sullivan

Everyone respects everyone else's turf and everyone realizes that sacrifices have been made.

Michele Patenaude

It tells us that the administration respects us as professionals and that they respect our work.