Funeralese Quotes & Sayings

High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service. — James Martineau

Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly. — Jessica Mitford

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly. — Nigel Lawson

robots are "only one software upgrade away" from full autonomy, as Scientific American has recently argued. — David A. Mindell

One thing I'm working on is an episodic web series titled 'One Warm Night.' It's a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs ... ninjas. — Justin Lee

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures. — Salvatore Quasimodo

People who don't read fiction really scare me. — Tenaya Jayne

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics. — Franz Werfel

And never, never, dear madam, put 'Wednesday' simply as the date! That way madness lies! — Lewis Carroll

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it. — Pearl S. Buck

I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile. — Chris Burke

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory. — Paloma Faith

Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels. — Andrew Stanton

I want good and different parts, different from what I've done. — Joan Severance

I'd have you on the floor, pulling a sixty-nine that wouldn't end until I tasted a dozen of your orgasms. Before you could even think about recovering, I'd fuck you in every way a male can fuck a female. And I wouldn't stop. Not until you begged. — Larissa Ione