Tomskey Quotes & Sayings

To The Undertaker or Friends Who Open This Coffin:

After laying back the lid of the coffin, remove entirely the pads from the sides of the face, as they are intended merely to steady the head in traveling. If there be any discharge of liquid from the eyes, nose, or mouth, which often occurs from the constant shaking of the cars, wipe it off gently with a soft piece of cotton cloth, slightly moistened.

This body was received by us for embalmment in a condition and the natural condition is preserved. Embalming was/was not possible.

After removing the coffin lid, leave it off for some time and let the body have the air.

Dr. Jupiter Jones, Embalmer & Keeper of the Dead — Edison McDaniels

I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long. — Katharine Isabelle

This view of farming has been dominant now for a generation, and so it is not too soon to ask: How well does it work? We must answer that it works as any industrial machine works: very "efficiently" according to the terms of an extremely specialized accounting. That is to say that it apparently makes it possible for about 4 percent of the population to "feed" the rest. — Wendell Berry

I've always slightly regretted not taking up Chicago. — John Travolta

I was born in Hawaii, but I was raised in Iowa. — Jason Momoa

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller. — Bobby Locke

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You. — Rumi

I'm suggesting that you let someone inside that empty room you call a heart. Whether you make her your wife or your mistress, a man's bed is decidedly warmer if there's a fire burning in something other than his cock. — Sabrina Jeffries

War isn't a TV show with plot twists to keep the viewers interested. The proliferation of images and blanket media coverage have suffocated the life out of old-style photojournalism. — David Burnett

I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview — Kevin Sinnott

You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States. — Rokia Traore

Insecurity wants us to keep track of our failures;
grace doesn't even write them down. — Bob Goff

I don't live in an outlaw world and I don't carry a gun. — Katey Sagal

Most of the books I have written and those I intend to write originate from the thought that it will be impossible for me to write a book of that kind: when I have convinced myself that such a book is completely beyond my capacities of temperament or skill, I sit down and start writing it. — Italo Calvino

I don't even get an allowance. — Macaulay Culkin