"Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones."

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Source : Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

Catharine Arnold

#Skulls Quotes #Skull And Bones Quotes #May Quotes

“There is no accident, just as there is no beginning and no end.”
“We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other”
“Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.”
“I believe in my privacy. I always have, and I always will. I don't think that my private life needs to be on display for me to get a better response at the box office or for me to get a better choice of movies.”
“I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.”

Source : "Irvin Kershner obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.
“My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.”

Source : "Nikki Haley Called ‘Condescending, Catty’ By Columnist", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2011.
“It makes sense to me that the polyglot wouldn't know what language he dreamed in.”

Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.
“Karch inspired his partners, his opponents and the world of volleyball players to be better than they were, to be great... In the end, who could do more for a sport than that?”

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