Tietjen Obituary Quotes & Sayings

His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life. — Laura Hillenbrand

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times — Izzy Stradlin

I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends. — Seth Godin

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness. — Adolf Hitler

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary. — Edward Gorey

During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike. — Dalai Lama

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted. — Mike Nichols

Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity. — Katherine Webb

The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men. — Joseph Conrad

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well. — Jimmy Buffett