Umphlett Funeral Home Quotes & Sayings

Why, I thought sadly, as he returned with his topcoat over his arm, why hadn't my mother married someone like him - ? Or Mr. Bracegirdle? somebody she actually had something in common with - older maybe but personable, someone who enjoyed galleries and string quartets and poking around used book stores, someone attentive, cultivated, kind? Who would have appreciated her, and bought her pretty clothes and taken her to Paris for her birthday, and given her the life she deserved? It wouldn't have been hard for her to find someone like that, if she'd tried. — Donna Tartt

In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken. — Ernest Hemingway,

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed. — Ben Elliot

There should be a word for what happens when you begin to ruin a feeling by saying it. — Sam Pink

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has. — Mahendra Singh Dhoni

A lot of my humor centers on the act of telling jokes and I think this can prevent certain audiences from suspending their feeling of disbelief. It might piss a few people off, but I can't help it. — Michael Showalter

The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it. — Cliff Richard

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity. — E.L. Doctorow

To be willing to do new things you don't think you'll like requires you to prefer the unknown. Not just tolerate it, but to prefer it. — Seth Godin

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed. — John Rhys-Davies