Mausoleum Quotes

#1. Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

John Simon

#2. Fuck You!' [Oskar said] 'Exuse me!' [His mom said] 'Sorry. I mean, screw you.' 'You need a time-out!' 'I need a mausoleum!

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#4. Now that I'm thinking about it," I told Gerald, "they could make an incredibly long limousine that had it's back seat at your mom's VJ and it's front seat at your mausoleum, and it would be as long as your life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. Is it a mausoleum, and I, the Egyptiab, mummified with pillows and my own flesh, through some oversight enbalmed alive? There must be some mistake.

Margaret Laurence

#6. Farewell best beloved, here at last I shall rest with thee, with thee in Christ I shall rise again'.(written on Prince Albert's and Queen Victorias's mausoleum)

Victoria Magazine

#7. Mausoleum, n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.

Ambrose Bierce

#8. When she awakened in the a.m. into blind-slit shrinking nowhereness, it had all gone disorientingly quiet, and she would imagine for a few seconds she was back there in that mausoleum of a ranch house in the San Fernando Valley.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#9. I abide in a goodly Museum, Frequented by sages profound: 'Tis a kind of strange mausoleum, Where the beasts that have vanished abound. There's a bird of the ages Triassic, With his antediluvian beak, And many a reptile Jurassic, And many a monster antique.

May Kendall

#10. Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

Leon Trotsky

#11. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum.

Kingsley Amis

#12. Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#13. Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

Richard Corliss

#14. They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in.

Mark Twain

#15. But by the way, who is the murderer? The one who does not know my relatives, or myself, as I erect my new life like a fragile mausoleum where their shadowy figure is integrated, like a corpse, at the source of my wandering?

Julia Kristeva

#16. Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters.

Mason Cooley

#17. Before I came to New York I lived here, in this mausoleum. I was nothing. I was dead. When I came to New York it was like a veil lifting. For the first time I felt I was alive, breathing.

Jacqueline Susann

#18. We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Charles Spurgeon

#19. And it was this: raze to the ground the mausoleum you have just started building for the bones of your ancestors and your descendants and those who come in-between. Make that land a holy shrine for pilgrims from everywhere.

Kamila Shamsie

#20. Welcome, Bell said, not rising from a large wooden chair that had been placed in the center of the room like it was a throne. Would that make him the king of sewer rats?

Kalayna Price

#21. If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.

Elizabeth Gillies

#23. Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.

Michael Poeltl

#24. It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.

Kyle MacLachlan

#25. It is easier to sacrifice great than little things.

Michel De Montaigne

#26. People often think that losing your job is one of the worst things that can happen to someone. And, in some cases, that might be true. But for me, unemployment can be the time and the motivation to finally go after my goals.

Homaro Cantu

#27. Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

V.S. Pritchett

#28. If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.

Condoleezza Rice

#29. In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#30. You are the happiness I never realized I needed.

Kristen Callihan

#31. You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Chuck Palahniuk

#32. 'Vagabond' is about owning where I come from, understanding the real power music had to transport myself with, whether that's busking in Europe or getting number ones.

Eddi Reader