Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Thurber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Lisa Presley

I was very much a daddy's girl, and was pretty tyrannical when he was sleeping. If I could get into trouble, I would. I didn't have a lot of respect for those people because I saw a lot of debauchery and decadence going on. People trying to hid it from me, but I was onto them.

J. G. Ballard

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

Terence McKenna

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

On a day of burial there is no perspective -- for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was -- to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

Nancy Gordon

She was a good mother to her kids. Right now, we're trying to figure out how to pay for her burial because she did not have any kind of insurance.

Seneca

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial

Joshua Slocum

Green burial isn't about doing extra things. It's about what not to do.

Alfred Hitchcock

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Mike Dooley

The president is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Mike Dooley

The president (Harrison) is a draw because there are people who spend years visiting every presidential burial site,

Melina Smith

Right now we just want to give her a proper burial and put her to rest.

Elliott Schlang

They've all diversified into cremation products, trying to lose the burial business to themselves.

Li Rongmei

We have to go through all the Customs procedures and paperwork so it is not easy to import one.

Agnes Repplier

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Michael Osterholm

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

David Liss

I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or customs or superstitions that show magic was once a whole lot more democratic.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Barton Gellman

Ordinary Geiger counters, worn on belt clips and resembling pagers, have been in use by the U.S. Customs Service for years.