Embalmer Quotes

#1. A person whose job is deep thinking about atomic war would no more call a 'megadeath' a 'million corpses' than an embalmer would refer to a 'loved one' as a 'stiff.'

Russell Baker

#2. A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

Jack Spicer

#3. Being a good embalmer is a thankless job.

Matt Groening

#4. Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

H.L. Mencken

#5. However, Harry, my clock has stopped. The embalmer is rolling up his sleeves. Even as we speak, seventy-two virgins are slipping into schoolgirl uniforms for me. You must live, and I confirm: always put your penis first.

Hanif Kureishi

#6. The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object.

Charles Bernheimer

#7. Ronald Reagan is a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Gore Vidal

#8. Ronald Reagan: a triumph of the embalmer's art.

Gore Vidal

#9. Have I not indeed been living in a dream? And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions?

Oscar Wilde

#10. That is most of it, being a wizard - seeing and listening.

Peter S. Beagle

#11. When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. In whatever we do, we should be investing in ourselves and not our jobs. Everything I have ever pursued has been for the sole goal of who I was becoming in its achievement. I competed and fought because of the man I became. This is the only worthwhile victory. You cannot take the trophies with you.

Chris Matakas

#13. Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

Seneca The Younger

#14. What's the meaning of goodness if there isn't a little badness to overcome?

Anne Revere

#15. A moon shining a broken road oversea; a lone woman naked to her waist waits at the edge of moonlight; a shadow person watching for meaning somewhere.

Keri Hulme

#16. When you realize that people treat you according to how they see themselves rather than how you really are, you are less likely to be affected by their behavior.

John C. Maxwell

#17. What is with waiters who don't write anything down and memorize your order instead? Are you trying to impress me or something? If you were that smart you wouldn't be a goddamn waiter in the first place.

Aaron Karo

#18. 'Anchorman' ... is not grounded in anything. There is absolutely no heart to that movie, which I love.

Steve Carell

#19. You've got to do something to fill up your day. And I can only play so much guitar and watch so many TV shows. It fulfills me. There are two things about it I like: It makes me happy, and it makes other people happy.

Stephen King

#20. She didn't shed a tear. Angels don't cry.

Hiroshi Sakurazaka

#21. The relentless desire to give is evidence of love.

Mensah Oteh

#22. Even in the West, moreover, although the ethical ideal has been absolute monogamy, the legal norm has been merely relative monogamy, which is also known as successive polygamy.

J. Budziszewski

#23. I was treating the past as if it could be mined for clues, for reasons.
But the past resists that.
It holds too much evidence of too many things.

David Levithan