Pipkin Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? "She drove me to my practice at four in the morning," etc. Writing is not figure skating or skiing. Your mother will not make you a writer. My advice to any young person who wants to write is: leave home. — Paul Theroux

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this? — Cecily Brown

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path. — Helen Mirren

I blamed this on Kelly Clarkson. On Kelly-Freaking-Clarkson. The angry man standing across the kitchen island looked like he was about to throttle me. I had visions of large hands gripped firmly around my neck shaking me like a rubber chicken. His eyes flashed with frustration and I cursed Kelly Clarkson straight to the grave. — Rachel Higginson

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. — Dalton Trumbo

The grey is certainly inspired by the photo-paintings, and, of course, it's related to the fact that I think grey is an important colour - the ideal colour for indifference, fence-sitting, keeping quiet, despair. In other words, for states of being and situations that affect one, and for which one would like to find a visual expression. — Gerhard Richter

promising!) was oddly disappointing, but what happened — Robin Stevens

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions. — Philip Sidney

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man. — Jamie Clayton

I won't go into it any further, other than to say that year by year the world darkens down and things are always going away. — Charles Frazier

Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom ... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service. — Ronald Reagan

Seeds of destruction take root in the human heart, and even among those who long for peace, they call to our darker instincts and urge us to violence.: — Victoria Armour-Hileman

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past. — Robert MacNeil

You're going to have an upset stomach. If you eat spicy stiff because you're upset, then you'll get diarrhea. — Kim Su-mi

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh. — Kanye West