Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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?

T. S. Eliot

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

Thomas Lynch

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Douglas Coupland

Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.

Donald Barthelme

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

Amber Heard

I get tickets all the time and can't stay under the speed limit. I'm bad at that.

Uta Hagen

Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.

Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Charles Spurgeon

If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.

Al Sharpton

I've never done anything else in my life other than preach and be an activist. Way before I was known.

Akhil Sharma

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We're here to be worshipers first and workers only second. We take a convert and immediately make a worker out of him. God never meant it to be so. God meant that a convert should learn to be a worshiper, and after that he can learn to be a worker...The work done by a worshiper will have eternity in it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Anything God has ever done, he can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere, he can do here. Anything God has ever done for anyone, he can do for you.

China Machado

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

Chief Joseph

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

Edith Piaf

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Eddie Murphy

There's always been a lot of negative stuff written about me. That's why I don't pay any attention to the critics. They've never liked anything I've done. What do critics know? It's the way the audience reacts that matters.