Interment Ceremony Quotes & Sayings

Literature for me ... tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. — Geoff Ryman

We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves. — Donatella Versace

I let the beast in too soon I don't know how to live without his hand on my throat. I fight him always and still. Oh, darling it's so sweet. You think you know how crazy, how crazy I am. — Fiona Apple

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain. — Conor Oberst

You can have anything you want. You just have to decide what you want and do everything it takes to get it! — Bob Proctor

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. — Steve Carlton

Still, I couldn't help but wonder if it was a mistake for people like us to be tied to a place. If we weren't meant to be ready and willing to wander. If everything we needed was contained in who we were.
And what we remember. — Alice Hoffman

Slow and steady wins the race. — Aesop

Husbands, too,
bore the loss of their wives with the most heroic calmness. Wives,
again, put on weeds for their husbands, as if, so far from grieving
in the garb of sorrow, they had made up their minds to render it as
becoming and attractive as possible. It was observable, too, that
ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the
ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached
home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. — Charles Dickens

They use force, to make you do, what the deciders, have decided you must do. — Zack De La Rocha

My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia?" Shelia had died at birth. — Joan Rivers

Creativity can impact some sort of "CHANGE" in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure "DIFFERENCES" and work together for a common cause. — Henry Johnson Jr

When you do something exactly wrong, you always turn up something. — Andy Warhol

I am beginning to feel the need of a glass of wine to fortify myself against this conversation. — Naomi Novik

It was observable, too, that ladies and gentlemen who were in passions of anguish during the ceremony of interment, recovered almost as soon as they reached home, and became quite composed before the tea-drinking was over. All — Charles Dickens

Ah, children are not what they were in my young days. They listened to their parents then. — L.M. Montgomery

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music. — Brian Eno