Skirkanich Obituary Quotes & Sayings

A true friend gives you exactly what you need, even if she has no idea why you need it. — Lindsey Leavitt

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set. — Hugh Jackman

*The best way to describe Mr. Windling would be like this: You are at a meeting. You'd like to be away early. So would everyone else. There really isn't very much to discuss, anyway. And just as everyone can see Any Other Business coming over the horizon and is putting their papers neatly together, a voice says "If I can raise a minor matter, Mr. Chairman ... " and with a horrible wooden feeling in your stomach you know, now, that the evening will go on for twice as long with much referring back to the minutes of earlier meetings. The man who has just said that, and is now sitting there with a smug smile of dedication to the committee process, is as near Mr. Windling as makes no difference. And something that distinguishes the Mr. Windlings of the universe is the term "in my humble opinion," which they think adds weight to their statements rather than indicating, in reality, "these are the mean little views of someone with the social grace of duckweed". — Terry Pratchett

It's been crazy trying to tour with a baby. But it's actually working out okay. — Caroline Corr

But a smell shivered him awake.
It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of sex. It was the muscular rot of mushrooms. It was the spice of oak. Meaty and redolent of soil and bark and herb. It was bats and husks and burrows and moss. It was solid and alive - so alive! And it was close.
The vapors invaded Nicholas' nostrils and his hair rose to their roots. His eyes were as heavy as manhole covers, but he opened them. Through the dying calm inside him snaked a tremble of fear.
The trees themselves seemed tense, waiting. The moonlight was a hard shell, sharp and ready to ready be struck and to ring like steel.
A shadow moved.
It poured like oil from between the tall trees and flowed across dark sandy dirt, lengthening into the middle of the ring. Trees seem to bend toward it, spellbound. A long, long shadow ... — Stephen M. Irwin

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working. — Will Smith

To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb. — Jalaja Bonheim

She returned, trailing clouds of glory which quickly dissipated in the mundane flow of sensory trivia. — Dan Simmons

And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it. — Mark The Evangelist

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood. — Cokie Roberts

I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame. — Laurence Sterne

What's the point of hope if the hope you have is a lie? said Frank. Better to have no hope at all than false hope. — Chris Priestley