Emken Obituary Quotes

#1. Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.

Robert Griffin III

#3. It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Robert Frost

#4. I'll have to calm down a bit. Or else I'll burst with happiness

Tove Jansson

#5. Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd.

Henry V. O'Neil

#6. Baghra," Nikolai said, "how are you this evening?"
"Still old and blind," she snarled.
"And charming," Nikolai drawled. "Never forget charming."
"Whelp."
"Hag."
"What do you want, pest?

Leigh Bardugo

#7. I always wanted to be a major-league baseball player.

Bryce Harper

#8. A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin

Leonard Cohen

#9. The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Matt Blunt

#10. I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

Tupac Shakur

#11. I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.

Penny Reid

#12. H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Marlene Dietrich

#13. More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

Justin Vernon

#14. I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Joni Mitchell

#15. As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

DJ Jazzy Jeff