Minnis Mortuary Quotes & Sayings

No one's like you, for me. — Jandy Nelson

She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people. — Darynda Jones

Isn't the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation of American industry and society the notion that individuals should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small governmental elite? — Thomas DiLorenzo

I maintain that a student's memory is largely the teacher's responsibility. — Pimsleur

Why target two and a half million innocent newborns and children?" Barbara Loe Fisher asks of the hep B vaccine. The implication behind the word innocent is that only those who are not innocent need protection from disease. All of us who grew up during the AIDS epidemic were exposed to the idea that AIDS was a punishment for homosexuality, promiscuity, and addiction. But if disease is a punishment for anything, it is only a punishment for being alive. When I was a child, I asked my father what causes cancer and he paused for a long moment before saying, "Life. Life causes cancer." I took this as an artful dodge until I read Siddhartha Mukherjee's history of cancer, in which he argues not only that life causes cancer but that cancer is us. "Down to their innate molecular core," Mukherjee writes, "cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves." And this, he notes, "is not a metaphor. — Eula Biss

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing. — Rhianna Pratchett

Well, there are those who would say it's a form of aggression."
"What is?"
"A surprise. — David Mamet

American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon. — Hubert H. Humphrey

There are few things harder to imagine than other people's conversations about yourself. — Jonathan Franzen