Obit Quotes

#1. If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

Leo McKern

#2. A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Tom Rachman

#3. "My obit is going to be full of Bogart, I'm sure," she says, adding, "I'll never know if that's true. If that's the way it is, that's the way it is."

Lauren Bacall

#4. For a lot of filmmakers, their first goal is to be successful and make some money. But once people start doing that, the real goal is then to win an Academy Award. Because when they do, they know that their obit is going to start out, 'Academy Award winner so-and-so.'

Robert Osborne

#5. All that a Pulitzer really does is give the obit writers something to put between the commas after your name.

Eddie Adams

#6. The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.

Billy Collins

#7. Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.'

Gordon Gee

#8. I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

Martin Short

#9. Once there was a moose, a very poor, thin, lonely moose who lived on a rocky hill where only bitter leaves grew and bushes with spiky branches. One day a red motor car drove past. In the backseat was
a grey gypsy dog wearing a gold earring.

Annie Proulx

#10. Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

Virgil

#11. Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Robert Kiyosaki

#12. Figures tell us there are already more people on earth than we need to move even the heaviest piano.

Woody Allen

#13. It's no wonder the narcissistic mother will always have a place in literature: she's a freak of nature.

Koren Zailckas

#14. He settled deeper into the armchair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity. Suddenly, as one sometimes does with a book of which one knows that one will ultimately read and reread very word, he opened it at a different place and found himself at the third chapter.

George Orwell

#15. The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Herbert Hoover

#16. I feel like if you see five films not knowing who made them, you know which one is the Coen Brothers.

Hailee Steinfeld