Mortensen Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway. — Robert Smith

If you want to obtain the strongest emotional response, then you write between the lines, never on the line; you write around the feeling, you don't spell it out explicitly. Because - if you tell the reader everything, if you don't leave spaces for the mind to fill in, if you don't engage the consciousness by giving the reader something to do
if, in effect, you try to do it all
then you leave the reader passive, the consciousness is not engaged as it could be, and so the reader is not that involved emotionally. — Nathaniel Branden

The food, though seasoned a little heavily with judgement, went down just fine. — Cynthia Bond

Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea that, in addition to the leaves, there exists in nature the "leaf": the original model according to which all the leaves were perhaps woven, sketched, measured, colored, curled, and painted
but by incompetent hands, so that no specimen has turned out to be a correct, trustworthy, and faithful likeness of the original model. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There were tears in his eyes but he blinked them away. "I wish to learn many things". — Anthony Ryan

Tears streamed down my face. I was so happy I wanted to shout it from the rooftop. But at the same time I knew that that afternoon's downpour would have made the slate tiles so slippery that achieving any kind of purchase would have been impossible. — Alan Partridge

And does his philosophy make you happy?" "I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for pleasure." "And found it, Mr. Gray?" "Often. Too often." The duchess sighed. "I am searching for peace," she — Oscar Wilde

The wise man is he who is not surprised when he finds stale tea in a beautiful teapot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Obviously, there's no way of making money that doesn't hurt somebody somewhere, but there are degrees of scale and immediacy. A merchant prince or a banker or a wealthy landowner isn't generally required to take responsibility for the people he cheats, screws and starves; society couldn't function if that were the case. — K.J. Parker

It is always brave to be kind, but in those days, such kindnesses could cost you your life.
Julian's Chapter — R.J. Palacio

Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path. — Steven Erikson

There's something important, as an actor, about allowing yourself to be approached by people to do roles. People see different things in you. — Damian Lewis

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume. — Sean Young

Let every family meet once a day or week for a real hearty sing, and their sing will give them more pleasure than they will take all the rest of the day. — Orson Squire Fowler

As the practical value of altering consciousness becomes recognized, procedures to effect these alterations will become increasingly ordinary and unremarkable. The whole concept of changing states of consciousness will cease to have a threatening or exotic aspect. — Michael Crichton