Coffins famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Armchair hater, I wouldn't piss on your coffin But when I see your picture I draw dicks on it.
-- Aesop Rock -
Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
-- Alexander Smith -
The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin.
-- Ayn Rand -
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
-- Bette Davis -
Now hoppin'-john was F. Jasmine's very favorite food. She had always warned them to wave a plate of rice and peas before her nose when she was in her coffin, to make certain there was no mistake; for if a breath of life was left in her, she would sit up and eat, but if she smelled the hopping-john, and did not stir, then they could just nail down the coffin and be certain she was truly dead.
-- Carson McCullers -
A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying
-- Charles Lamb -
Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?" I say, goodnight. The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
-- Clay Pell -
Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.
-- Dan Rice -
Like a church bell, a coffin, and a vat of melted chocolate, a supply closet is rarely a comfortable place to hide.
-- Daniel Handler -
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
-- Fred Allen -
(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.
-- Gayle Forman -
There's a coffin in the back of the church as the wedding is going on ... Look, I'm a romantic. I like marriage...In the movies.
-- George Clooney -
I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.
-- J. Patrick Lewis -
A rut... is little more than a coffin with the ends kicked out.
-- James Hunter -
No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.
-- Jimmy Page -
Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.
-- Joan Frank -
Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs.
-- Joe Baca -
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
-- Joe Orton -
When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.
-- John Burdett -
She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin.
-- John Cheever -
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
-- John Philpot Curran -
I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism's coffin.
-- Lee Strobel -
A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.
-- Leo Burnett -
A woman I loved [Andi Parhamovich] was killed in Baghdad in January 2007 – al-Qaeda in Iraq took credit for it … The memorial service with me crying over an empty coffin.
-- Michael Hastings -
I will be in my coffin before I will fight again under your command.
-- Nathan Bedford Forrest -
Being a man of the theater and a hedonist, I find the idea of building coffins very romantic.
-- Nick Offerman -
Shoulda sent a thank you note, you little hoe Now Imma wrap your coffin wit a bow
-- Nicki Minaj -
I'd rather look good in my coffin than bad in my coffin.
-- Ozzy Osbourne -
The Sound of Building Coffins is a soulful work from a writer of the weird. Maistros does more than make you feel for his characters and their twisted, damaged lives; he makes you *want* to feel.
-- Paul G. Tremblay -
Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.
-- Rachel Zoe -
I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.
-- Red Skelton -
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.
-- Stan Dale -
It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.
-- Steven Tyler -
Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own.
-- Tove Ditlevsen -
I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.
-- Vladimir Mayakovsky -
He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.
-- Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
A People Magazine article in 1982 referred to him as the late Abe Vigoda. The very-much-alive Vigoda placed an ad in Variety with him in a coffin holding a copy of People Magazine.
-- Audie Cornish -
Labels put people in boxes, and those boxes are shaped like coffins.
-- Chirlane McCray -
The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
-- Peter O'Toole -
I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.
-- Bill Jay -
I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.
-- Brigid Brannagh -
When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
-- Dana Gould -
If you don't have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.
-- Roger Moore -
The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.
-- F. Ross Johnson -
Your grandfather's coffin is heavier than you expect. Your father's coffin is heavier than you can bear.
-- Todd Lowe
