Newsday Obits Quotes & Sayings

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business. — Venus Williams

While I Wait ... Fate, So sensitive to every move we sway. Love, So fragile to every word we say. Time, A fire that consumes the day. And hate, Swallows us in for pay. Life, Can you feel me washing away? And Death, So certain that you will stay. Hope, So compressed in the faraway. But Me, I guess I'll be okay. — Alexia Purdy

Every day a little life, a blank to be inscribed with gentle thoughts. — Samuel Rogers

You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops. — Tom Waits

Americans respect talent only insofar as it leads to fame, and we reserve our most fervent admiration for famous people who destroy their lives as well as their talent. The fatal flaws of Elvis, Judy, and Marilyn register much higher on our national applause meter than their living achievements. In Amerca, talent is merely a tool for becoming famous in life so you can become more famous in death - where all are equal. — Florence King

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story. — Richard Gist

It was a silence so deep, so still, that a man could finally hear the beating of his own heart, the gentle whispers of the soul. — Kamran Pasha

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not. — Joel Osteen