"I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'"

-- Mireya Mayor

#More Time Quotes #Said Quotes #Close To Death Quotes

“I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.”
“Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?”

Source : "Fictional character: Clarence Oddbody". "It's a Wonderful Life", www.imdb.com. 1946.
“The trouble with giving yourself a pep talk is, that deep down you know it's all bullshit.”
“Death stung himself to death when he stung Christ.”
“That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.”
“Music that paints nothing is only noise.”
“Our dreams are the forgotten path to Heaven.”
“Water is the ink that writes the poetry of life.”

Source : "Alexandra Cousteau Tells Katie Couric, 'The Thing Every Human Has in Common Is Our Need for Water'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. June 28, 2010.

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