Embalmed Alive Quotes

#1. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.

Stephen Sondheim

#3. He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Susanna Clarke

#4. As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.

Jack Kerouac

#5. I am very hostile to religion because it is enormously dominant, especially in American life. And I don't buy the argument that, well, it's harmless. I think it is harmful, partly because I care passionately about what's true.

Richard Dawkins

#6. But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

Frank Herbert

#7. I take pride knowing that I hustle, day in and day out.

Johnny Damon

#8. When I'm doing more than one movie because it makes one not the end of the world. It makes me feel like, "Okay, I won. I had a victory on this one, today. And I lost on this one, today." I can keep going back-and-forth.

Jon M. Chu

#9. After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats!

Adam Nevill

#10. At heart we are all powerful, beautiful, and capable of changing the world with our bare hands.

Dianne Sylvan

#11. The reality is that the fewer children a congregation has, the more important an outreach ministry for children and families like Vacation Bible School is.

Dr. Steve R. Parr

#12. I'm proud I've been able to pay my rent doing what I love because I hate real jobs.

Travie McCoy