![The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-other-day-the-way-people-do-who-are-approaching-their-80th-birthday-i-was.jpg)
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In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.' Albert Schweitzer
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tombstone ravens nevermore
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore. Edgar Allan Poe
tombstone wind iron
At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell. Charles Dickens
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The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.
tombstone want ifs
I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it. David Brenner
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I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters! Charles Lamb
tombstone ordinary disgusting
I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.
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thinking quality texture
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time. Alexandra Guarnaschelli
thinking missing television
I don't think I miss anything by not watching television. Alexandra Paul
thinking realizing free-will
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thinking why-not noses
What about this?" I held up a battered copy of Beauty and the Beast. "It sounds romantic." Xavier wrinkled his nose. "Disney... I don't think so." "Why not?" "Because if anyone found out, I'd never live it down." "I won't tell if you don't," I pleaded, and Xavier shook his head in defeat. "The things I do for you," He said with an exaggerated sigh.
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The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
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Lyme Timber is really thinking about conservation -- they really want that to happen. Lyme Timber is exceptional on this.
thinking
McNabb has always been nonchalant about everything; thinking things will just go away, but things just don't go away, Jerry Butler
thinking
When you're 17 years old, you're just thinking about girls. Jerry Glanville
thinking ideas wanted
I think the whole idea of me was that I wasn't going to be but that I wanted to be, desperately. Chris Elliott
people
It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object. Isabella Rossellini
people
I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.
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Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.' Rick Perlstein
people
People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.
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people
There are not enough people out talking about the President positively. Robert Teeter
people
Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment. Roger Penrose
people
My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. Kristy Swanson
people
I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour. Malorie Blackman