Sciaraffa Funeral Directors Quotes

#1. So when the big companies come in they buy the name of the company, they pay for the funeral directors to stay on, they create the appearance of diversity. But that is merely the tip of the gravestone. In reality, they are as local as Burger King. #Quote by Neil Gaiman

#2. You should probably go to the doctor for that."
He rolls his eyes, stealing a bottle of water from the refrigerator and uncapping it.
"Doctors are overrated."
"Yeah, funeral directors too."
He pauses with the bottle halfway to his mouth, bewilderment filtering through his eyes. "I don't understand half of what you say."
"Well, at least you understand the other half of it. There's hope for you yet. I mean, at least a fifty-fifty chance, right?"
His eyes brighten. "There she is. 'Bout time you woke up. Good morning, Kennedy."
I mutter something that may or may not come out sounding like, "Fuck off," and stomp into the living room to await what is guaranteed to be an outstanding day. I can feel the awesomeness ahead.
Graham follows me, flipping a light switch and burning my eyes. "Did you just tell Blake to fuck off?"
"I can't remember. It was so long ago."
I close my eyes and flop onto my back on the couch, hoping when I open my eyes it will be tomorrow.
He frowns. "You never say fuck."
"Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck."
"Maybe you should go back to bed."
"Maybe you should fu - "
A hand claps over my mouth, and I look up, finding twinkling eyes on me.
"You're cute when you're upset."
I lick his hand and he yelps as he yanks it back.
"Really, Kennedy?"
I smirk, finally feeling halfway decent.
"Really. Carry me to the truck, servant."
The #Quote by Lindy Zart

#3. As a business, the funeral industry has developed by selling a certain type of "dignity." Dignity is having a well-orchestrated final moment for the family, complete with a well-orchestrated corpse. Funeral directors become like directors for the stage, curating the evening's performance. The corpse is the star of the show and pains are taken to make sure the fourth wall is never broken, that the corpse does not interact with the audience and spoil the illusion. #Quote by Caitlin Doughty

#4. Death avoidance is not an individual failing; it's a cultural one. Facing death is not for the faint-hearted. It is far too challenging to expect that each citizen will do so on his or her own. Death acceptance is the responsibility of all death professionals - funeral directors, cemetery managers, hospital workers. It is the responsibility of those who have been tasked with creating physical and emotional environments where safe, open interaction with death and dead bodies is possible. #Quote by Caitlin Doughty

#5. I don't believe in director's cuts and I also don't really believe in deleted scenes because the movie that is in theaters, that's what the director made. #Quote by Neill Blomkamp

#6. The funeral was over, at last I could cry. Except that I couldn't. My tears, kept in too long, had fossilized. They would have to stay in forever now. #Quote by Diane Setterfield

#7. You never wear red to no funeral; red says the dead person was a fool. #Quote by Greg Iles

#8. I find too there are few Friendships in the World Marriage-Proof; especially when the Person our Friend marries has not a Soul particularly capable of the Tenderness of that Endearment ... we may generally conclude the Marriage of a Friend to be the Funeral of a Friendship ... #Quote by Katherine Philips

#9. I prefer to work with first-time directors. #Quote by Jake Johnson

#10. The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way. #Quote by Martin McGuinness

#11. Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story #Quote by Deepak Chopra

#12. Every director is different, but the insights from new people on set give you a different opinion and perspective, which is always embraced, in some way. #Quote by Dominique McElligott

#13. Disney was kind enough, thoughtful enough and believed enough in me, as a director, to wait for me to be available. #Quote by Steve Antin

#14. Relax, Medea. We've come to see your mother. (Tory)
Your funeral. (Medea)
It's always so good to see you, too. You're just such a ray of happy sunshine. I so look forward to all our interactions. (Tory) #Quote by Sherrilyn Kenyon

#15. Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense. #Quote by Jackie Chan

#16. I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on films or discussing them with directors, I find that's my biggest challenge. Different words mean different things to people. #Quote by Amy Adams

#17. Ah, much deluded! lay aside
Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds like these
To offend, where thou canst not appease?
Death is not (wherefore dream'st thou thus?)
The son of night and Erebus:
Not was of fell Erynnis born
On gulfs where Chaos rules forlorn.
But sent from God, his presence leaves,
To gather home his ripen'd sheaves,
To call encumber'd souls away
From fleshly bonds to boundless day,
(As when the winged hours excited,
And summon forth the morning light)
And each to convoy to her place
Before the Eternal Father's face. #Quote by John Milton

#18. Then she wanted to know more about the funeral, but I didn't know what else to report, I had already said everything about Wertheimer's funeral, more or less everything. Was it a Jewish funeral, the innkeeper wanted to know. I said, no, no Jewish funeral, he was buried the fastest way possible, I said, everything went so fast I almost missed it. The #Quote by Thomas Bernhard

#19. No director wants to be directed, but no good director ... would shy away from the good ideas of others. #Quote by Tommy Lee Jones

#20. My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so. #Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

#21. Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors. #Quote by Truman Capote

#22. Once you crack the script, everything else follows. #Quote by Ridley Scott

#23. The director's who want to be innovative use the DVD as a tool to see what people have done in the past and you have other people who will actually take from better directors and that makes them better directors. #Quote by Jerry Bruckheimer

#24. Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident. #Quote by Anthony Liccione

#25. I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me. #Quote by Stephen Fry

#26. Directors don't always create, they can also destroy with too many demands. #Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

#27. I think we all have limitations, as directors. I don't care what the budget is, it's probably never enough money and never enough time. You figure it out. Sometimes the limitations bring more creativity. #Quote by Francesca Gregorini

#28. Songs are pretty easy. They are small, they are modular, they are about as big as a bagel. They are easy to build. Films are overwhelming in their magnitude and scope. By comparison, a lot of film directors wish they were writing songs because you can do it while getting your hair cut. #Quote by Tom Waits

#29. Show Pleasant Riderhood a Wedding in the street, and she only saw two people taking out a regular license to quarrel and fight. Show her a Christening, and she saw a little heathen personage having a quite superfluous name bestowed upon it, inasmuch as it would be commonly addressed by some abusive epithet; which little personage was not in the least wanted by anybody, and would be shoved and banged out of everybody's way, until it should grow big enough to shove and bang. Show her a Funeral, and she saw an unremunerative ceremony in the nature of a black masquerade, conferring a temporary gentility on the performers, at an immense expense, and representing the only formal party ever given by the deceased. Show her a live father, and she saw but a duplicate of her own father, who from her infancy had been taken with fits and starts of discharging his duty to her, which duty was always incorporated in the form of a fist or a leathern strap, and being discharged hurt her. All things considered, therefore, Pleasant Riderhood was not so very, very bad. #Quote by Charles Dickens

#30. You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this? #Quote by James Van Der Beek

#31. I've been fortunate to work with several actors and directors who I look up to, and learned from each of them. #Quote by Paul Dano

#32. Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new. #Quote by Kate Baldwin

#33. I just started to want to be more hands on, and again, because of the nature of this job which was to evaluate the writing apart from the production, I got clear on what a director did and I became interested in directing, so I started to do that in the late 80s. #Quote by Rob Urbinati

#34. In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods. #Quote by Roger Ebert

#35. Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception. #Quote by Tibor Fischer

#36. Actors are accustomed to doing exactly what the director or writer requests us to do, and rarely get involved in that part of the process. #Quote by Catherine McCormack

#37. It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance. #Quote by Mark Rydell

#38. I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know. #Quote by Pauline Kael

#39. Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head. #Quote by Orson Welles

#40. At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin. #Quote by Nick Vujicic

#41. Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been. #Quote by Louis Gustave Vapereau

#42. Since my visit to the Hermitage, I had become more aware of the four figures, two women and two men, who stood around the luminous space where the father welcomed his returning son. Their way of looking leaves you wondering how they think or feel about what they are watching. These bystanders, or observers, allow for all sorts of interpretations. As I reflect on my own journey, I become more and more aware of how long I have played the role of observer. For years I had instructed students on the different aspects of the spiritual life, trying to help them see the importance of living it. But had I, myself, really ever dared to step into the center, kneel down, and let myself be held by a forgiving God?

The simple fact of being able to express an opinion, to set up an argument, to defend a position, and to clarify a vision has given me, and gives me still, a sense of control. And, generally, I feel much safer in experiencing a sense of control over an undefinable situation than in taking the risk of letting that situation control me.

Certainly there were many hours of prayer, many days and months of retreat, and countless conversations with spiritual directors, but I had never fully given up the role of bystander. Even though there has been in me a lifelong desire to be an insider looking out, I nevertheless kept choosing over and over again the position of the outsider looking in. Sometimes this looking-in was a curious looking-in, sometimes a jealous #Quote by Henri J.M. Nouwen

#43. I'm not really a full-time director, I just like to direct the things that I write because I think I'm going to know it better than someone else. #Quote by Billy Bob Thornton

#44. It suits him because way back many years ago when Nikita Mikhalkov, the great Russian director, came, I said, "I want you to meet somebody." So I get Billy Bob from Malvern, Arkansas and Nikita Mikhalkov from Moscow. It's just two big talents meet. We sat for two or three hours and talked. It was great. He's the real deal, this guy. #Quote by Robert Duvall

#45. Yes, there are directors I admire, the mavericks. Altman. There are many good directors. #Quote by Mark Rydell

#46. You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on! #Quote by Peter Falk

#47. As a director, there is nothing more fun than seeing an audience screaming and jumping. You are the ultimate puppet master, controlling the emotions of the audience. #Quote by Fede Alvarez

#48. When your set is led by a great guy and visionary like Director Tim Miler and a true superstar talent like Reynolds who's so easy to connect and improv with it allows it to be a lot of fun along the way. #Quote by Kyle Cassie

#49. There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old. #Quote by James Garner