Abbonizio Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events? — Elizabeth Bibesco

The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable. — Aldous Huxley

If all of her was not enough for him, then let him have none of her and seek what he needed elsewhere. — Robin Hobb

Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas — Carl Sagan

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing. — R. Buckminster Fuller

[When a religious couple wrote to Sagan about fulfilled prophecies, he wrote back in May 1996:]

If 'fulfilled prophecy' is your criterion, why do you not believe in materialistic science, which has an unparalleled record of fulfilled prophecy? Consider, for example, eclipses. — Carl Sagan

I had no idea this thing was televised. Boy, is my face red. — David Letterman

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. — Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Doubt is a central factor all the time. There's always the doubt: What the hell am I doing out here in the middle of the woods, all alone, painting? — Neil Welliver

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me. — Nicolas Roeg

I'll rest when I'm dead. I'm hungry and life is short! — Madonna Ciccone

I am struck the whole litany of people, especially of that era, who were involved in some scandal or another. Some of it was sexual. Some of it was more financial. And it was just all concentrated in a lot of people all at once. — Mark Shields

Don't make me punch you again, because I swear to God, I will." That elicited a smirk. His face still had a slight shadow where I'd gotten him. "I also have no qualms about going for your man bits again."
"I don't doubt you for a second, Missy. — Chelsea M. Cameron