Funest Quotes

#1. Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.

Wallace Stevens

#2. Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Elvis Costello

#3. Remembering this, he feels the old, hot prickle in his eyes. He thinks, Yes. But it vanishes. His angry heart calls for his attention, a fist on the door of his ribcage, beating.

Lauren Groff

#4. We might as well face it: Death is a bore. It is even harder on the survivors than on the deceased, who at least don't have to worry about when to sit and when to stand, or when to permit a pale smile and when to glance tragically away.

Alan Bradley

#5. I'll splurge on Toblerone. I love Toblerone with the Swiss chocolate and nougat in it.

Jordin Sparks

#6. I hadn't considered the possibility that I might find someone who would understand what I had endured and want me anyway, even though I wasn't whole.

Helena Hunting

#7. I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.

Michael Flatley

#8. There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.

Melika Dannese Lux

#9. Well, now that we're on the subject, it's somewhat unhygienic for you to drink out of the milk jug."
"Babe, I had my tongue in your mouth for ten minutes this morning. How's that any different ?

Kristen Ashley

#10. Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards.

Seth Shostak