Ciaccia Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things. — Lisel Mueller

Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance. — Henry Ward Beecher

Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light. — Stephenie Meyer

He had the sense that the gods was just another name for time, but he felt that it would be as stupid to say such a thing as it would be to suggest that against the gods we can never prevail. — Richard Flanagan

No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously. — Walter Kirn

Anyone wanna buy my Malaysian Airlines frequent flier miles? — Jason Biggs

Learners have a lot of staying power. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Life is a beautiful song written on the canvas of your mind. — Debasish Mridha

We can be cruelest to those who remind us of ourselves." "Ty — Cassandra Clare

We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse we become more like ourselves. — Peter Gavin Hall

The Dream Lover-what a bold, insightful, and enticing novel. And how vigorously Elizabeth Berg brings us the iconoclastic life of George Sand. Berg writes with such intimacy and compassion that I think she must have some shared ancestral DNA with Sand. I savored every page. — Frances Mayes

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people. — Debi Mazar

I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right? — Michelle Tea

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces. — Thomas Friedman